[Gllug] Linux on Desktop

[Tethys]

Nix writes:

>This is very close to what symbol versioning provides for e.g. glibc. I
>just wish more library authors other than glibc used it.

You're assuming that said library authors even know what symbols are,
let alone understanding symbol versioning.

No, I haven't really been explaining run time linker behaviour to
someone at work today, honest! It turns out that this is the first
time he'd ever written a program that compiled down to native code.
Sigh. Is this what Universities are churning out these days (he has
a degree in computer science)?

Tet
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