cvs commit: src/lib/msun/i387 fenv.c fenv.h

[Doug Rabson]

On 18 Mar 2005, at 19:00, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>>> Yeah, well, that was your karmic punishment for touching the 
>>> internals
>>> of FILE.  Serves you right!
>>
>> I didn't touch the internals of FILE.  I just helped clean up the
>> mess. :-(
>
> That was me, but as I recall we ended up keeping binary compat
> by reusing an existing field and extending it (green's idea I
> believe).  I think the real pain came when we tried to fix
> the predefined stdio, stdin, and stderr descriptors to prevent
> ABI breakage for future FILE changes.
>
> Has anyone experimented with symbol versioning yet?  I recall
> someone wanting to do that (dfr?).

I did (and still do) want to do that. I'm also horribly short of free 
time/energy for the foreseeable future. I'm certain that playing with 
rtld would be lots more fun than writing a unicode string class and 
bidirectional text renderer (my latest work evil) but unfortunately I 
get don't get paid for rtld...