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Re: shlib-compat.h

To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Subject: Re: shlib-compat.h
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 22 Mar 2000 10:55:22 -0800
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <200003221844.NAA13218@frob.com>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> That is just not true.  There is _dl_check_map_versions, called on each
> object loaded, that does work linear in the number of version sets.

This is completely neglectable.

> Indeed the names are just names, and the content of the names does
> not matter.  But it *is* meaningful to have two distinct version
> sets instead of one, and in the cases we are talking about it is
> desireable to have only one.

It makes it very much harder for somebody who has no access to the
platform using this to find out which files are involved.  Function
names hould be unique over all platforms.  This is the only possible
way one can identify problems and report solutions.

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