cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen fts-compat.c fts-compat.h

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
>
> I must withdraw my argument against alias versions.  My problem
> with them appeared to stem from a typo in "__weak_reference" I'd
> inherited from your example. :-)
> It's funny that the compiler emitted just a vague warning:
>
> foo.c:12: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
> foo.c:12: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
>
> and the typo remained unnoticed until I saw it by accident.
>
> Now I'll investigate if macros can help us to have right versions
> in branches and HEAD...  Do you think there is a non-hackish way
> to see if we're on a STABLE branch?  __FreeBSD_version doesn't seem
> to provide the information until after the first release from the
> branch has been cut.

I can't think of anything.  The other problem is that we may need
to MFC an ABI change before -current is branched.  When that happens,
the RELENG_X version (FBSD_1.?) also needs to exist in -current.
Other ABI changes in -current should remain in the hidden or temporary
(or whatever we call it) version.

I'm still unconvinced that this method is worth the effort or
confusion level ;-)

> OTOH, we should't dump ObsoleteVersions completely because we may
> need it, too, e.g., when we didn't plan to break an ABI twice in a
> row but have to.

OK, but I suppose you could just create the file when it is needed
for the first time.

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DE