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