Versioned Symbols in Shared Libraries

[Pedro Lamarão]

Hello! Just noting that symbol versioning is a GNU thing which may not
exist in other implementations, such as musl, or Windows.

Em qui., 29 de set. de 2022 às 08:50, Sebastian Stenzel <
sebastian.stenzel at gmail.com> escreveu:

> Hi,
>
> Today I learned about versioned symbols when investigating a downwards
> compatibility problem in a jextract'ed API. See discussion [1]
>
> The concept is new to me, but apparently broadly used to make sure to
> invoke the exact function that was referenced at compile time. Since
> jextract only knows the header files, I suppose it isn't aware of such
> versions? Does the SymbolLookup API provide any mechanism to lookup a
> specific version?
>
> I hope you can make sense of what I'm asking as this is all new to me and
> I'm not sure I'm asking the right questions.
>
> Thank you!
>
> [1]: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/discussions/701



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