From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25057 invoked by alias); 11 Apr 2007 14:53:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 24948 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Apr 2007 14:53:17 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from return.false.org (HELO return.false.org) (66.207.162.98) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:53:08 +0100 Received: from return.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by return.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 358384B26F; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:53:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (dsl093-172-095.pit1.dsl.speakeasy.net [66.93.172.95]) by return.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 181074B26D; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:53:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HbeC2-0005eg-9h; Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:53:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:53:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jan Kratochvil Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [patch] libunwind: Use .so with its major version number Message-ID: <20070411145306.GB21413@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jan Kratochvil , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20070411123209.GA4123@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070411123209.GA4123@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-04/txt/msg00145.txt.bz2 On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:32:09PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > Hi, > > GDB currently dlopen()s `libunwind-ia64.so': > #define LIBUNWIND_SO "libunwind-" STRINGIFY(UNW_TARGET) ".so" > > and uses its symbol in a defined ABI way afterwards. > This makes an incompatible ABI change impossible. > > `libunwind-ia64.so' should be used only for the build time while runtime should > use `libunwind-ia64.so.7' in this case. > > libunwind author's approval: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libunwind-devel/2007-04/msg00006.html Yes, this is OK. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery