Re: CVS commit: src

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:17:30PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> 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?

That involves more than one library, i.e. it is not self-contained.

> > 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!

Given that it involves a libc major bump as well: not at this time.

Joerg