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Re: Binary compatibility between glibc 2.1.0/2.1.1 and 2.1.2 ?
Juergen Kreileder <kreilede@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
> IMHO this is inconvenient: Doesn't that mean that every time glibc
> introduces a new symbol version (like the GLIBC_2.1 sem_* versions in
> glibc 2.1.2) you'll have to upgrade all libraries that use the old
> versions because otherwise you can't use these libraries for
> development anymore.
New symbols are not introduced without reasons.
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