Philip Martin wrote:
>kfogel@collab.net writes:
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>>Can you say a scenario you have in mind, where having the symbols be
>>in the object code, even if not the source code, would be a problem?
>>I feel like I may be being insufficiently imaginative here...
>>
>>
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>It's no different from any other public symbol.
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>If some third-party code uses SVN_ERR and gets built against
>Subversion 1.2 the object code will refer to svn_err__locate. If we
>change svn_err__locate in 1.4 and make it incompatible with 1.2 then
>the object code will not work with the 1.4 libraries and we will have
>broken the ABI guarantees. Having the SVN_ERR macro remain source
>compatible doesn't get round this problem.
>
>
Well, in the particualr case of svn_error__locate, that's only used in
maintainer mode. I don't think anyone has any business using
maintainer-mode libraries in production.
-- Brane
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Received on Wed Oct 5 23:57:06 2005