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Re: Symbol-based dependencies on shared libraries: some news



On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:41:25PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Aug 2007, Loïc Minier wrote:
> >  Do you strip the "well known symbols" you've seen on each arch so that
> >  one only has to specify the other symbols?

> No, because they might change with the toolchain and we want to track that
> properly...

Why does it need tracking?  If these symbols were to disappear that would
be no loss, it shouldn't be relevant to the library ABIs at all.  I think it
would indeed be better to exclude these symbols from the list.

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