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Subject: Re: RFC: Symbol versioning for libc
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Daniel Eischen wrote:
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> I'd like to commit what I have to enable wider testing, but
> turn off symbol versioning by default.  I would also like
> re@ to take a look at the version namespace scheme. ....

Wouldn't it be simpler for the namespace version to match
the FreeBSD version? E.g. FBSD_7.0 for FreeBSD 7.0, etc.
FreeBSD_7.1 should inherit from FBSD_7.0, etc.

What you describe almost matches this already (use "7" instead
of "1").

Tim