__fpclassifyd problem
John Angelmo
john at adminforum.se
Mon Oct 20 01:52:55 PDT 2003
Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:48:58PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
>>On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:13:41PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I sent in an email *along time ago* about this type
>>>of problem. See the fallout due to revision 1.24
>>>of lib/libc/stdio/findfp.c. IMHO, all shared libraries
>>>versions should have been bumped in going from 4.x to
>>>5.0.
>>
>>You don't want to do it before you have to, because this creates more
>>pain for people when you make a change that breaks backwards compat
>>(given the policy/preference of only bumping once per major release).
>>
>>I'm working on a script that will detect the kind of backwards
>>compatibility breakage we're seeing here by comparing the symbols in
>>4.x and 5.x versions of libraries with the same major revision. We
>>can then run this once a day/week/whatever somewhere to catch these
>>problems as soon as they occur in future.
>>
>
>
> You and I participated in the first go around in the
> library versioning problem. For one of my attempts
> to discuss this problem, see
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1981830+1986079+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-current/20021103.freebsd-current
>
Are there any hints how to solve my problem, I'm willing to give it a
shot ;)
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