svn commit: r258398 - in stable/10: . include lib lib/libc lib/libc/iconv lib/libc_nonshared sys/sys

[Peter Wemm]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 11/20/13, 12:25 PM, Peter Wemm wrote:
>
>> +int _iconv_version_compat = 0x0108;    /* Magic - not used */
>> +
>>
>>  can you illuminate this a bit more?  is it magic, or is it not used?
>

libiconv has a unique, non-standard, private identifier for its version,
'extern int libiconv_version'.  Ours acquired one via search/replace, by
accident.  In theory, nothing knows of "iconv_version", but in order to be
ABI compatible with old 10-alpha/beta snapshots, I left it there via its
.symdef alias.  "Magic" refers to the old magic number that it had.  Not
that it does anything special.

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