Subject: Re: lib/24324: telldir issues
To: None <lib-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/19/2006 00:35:02
The following reply was made to PR lib/24324; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: Arne H Juul <arnej@europe.yahoo-inc.com>, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: lib-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: lib/24324: telldir issues
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 20:32:46 -0400
On May 19, 12:03am, arnej@europe.yahoo-inc.com (Arne H Juul) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: lib/24324: telldir issues
| On Sat, 13 May 2006, Brett Lymn wrote:
| > About the only think I can see that would cause a bit of a pause is
| > the fact that you changed the calling arguments in telldir() by
| > removing "const", this would require a bump in the version number of
| > libc to prevent binaries linked with old libc versions getting the new
| > API. I believe that his would be a bump in the major version of libs
| > which is not done lightly.
|
| you don't give any *reason* why this would require a version bump;
| just saying it doesn't make it so. Have you actually verified your
| claim by testing, or could you at least make some plausible argument?
|
| - Arne H. J.
I don't think that this requires a version bump. The only plausible issue
would be if c++ was mangling the name, but this is not the case.
christos