Re: CVS commit: src

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:12:30PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> It can be used to provide different implementations in one library based
> on hardware support etc, without adding an additional layer of
> indirection like the function pointer dance we do in src/common for the
> atomics.

Like we do for libm in ld.so.conf?

> It also makes it possible to move symbols from one DSO to
> another without breaking the ABI if the old location uses symbol
> versioning. That's the original motivation here -- to be able to gut
> libgcc_s.so without requiring the major bump.

I prefer the major bump!

Martin