[cfe-dev] May libc++ support symbol versioning?

[Zhihao Yuan via cfe-dev]

On Wednesday, February 26, 2020 11:16 AM, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2020-February/055669.html
>
> FWIW: Joerg is exactly correct in that thread. Symbol versioning does
> not solve the problem, for precisely the reasons that he outlines. C++
> inline namespaces provide a strictly richer set of functionality than
> ELF symbol versioning and libc++ uses them for ABI stability. This does
> not help libraries that pass libc++ types across library boundaries.
>
> void printString(std::__2::string);
>

Not the case with -D_LIBCPP_ABI_UNSTABLE

So the question is what should libc++
deliver to FreeBSD in its first
unavoidable break, because I suppose,
nobody in FreeBSD want to break all
three stable versions again after this.

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Zhihao Yuan, ID lichray
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