lib/libc/Versions.def: new symbol version for 12.x

Ed Schouten ed at nuxi.nl
Fri Jul 29 19:18:09 UTC 2016


2016-07-29 21:10 GMT+02:00 Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org>:
> On 29 July 2016 at 14:53, Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> New symbol versions can be rolled back to -stable or other prior
>> baselines.
>
> If that happens I think having an FBSD_12.0 symbol in stable/11
> actually makes it more clear what's happening, than if a FBSD_1.5
> symbol appears in stable/11.

Yes, exactly. The version number would just indicate the version of
-CURRENT that was used to introduce the symbol. If we would be going
down this road, then I have to further questions:

- Should we drop the .0 suffix then?
- Would it make sense to also name it to 'FreeBSD' instead of 'fBSD'?

That is, using 'FreeBSD_12' as the next symbol version.

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Ed Schouten <ed at nuxi.nl>
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