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Re: RPC IPv6 breaks binary compatibility

On Wed, Jan 26, Philip Blundell wrote:

> >- We use symbol versioning and add a new version for the RPC functions.
> >  In this case we should also fix the broken use of "long", which should
> >  be uint32_t. 
> 
> This sounds like the right approach.  I guess it will involve a little more 
> work inside libc, but this way we avoid having to make the ugly changes to 
> client programs that would be needed if we just added a second address field.

Yes, but one with the most work, too :(

  Thorsten
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