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> Symbol versioning does not prevent you from updating the implementation of old symbol versions in a compatible way. As I understand the problem is that if ap
by zokier 5y ago
> Symbol versioning does not prevent you from updating the implementation of old symbol versions in a compatible way.
As I understand the problem is that if application is compatible with both version X and X+1, then there is no way to compile binary that would preferentially use X+1 when available but also work with X.
So applications can not reap the benefits of new version without dropping support with old version.
- kevincox 5y agoWhat benefits are you talking about. In general benefits not related to the ABI will be gained when updating glibc. For benefits related to the ABI the gains are probably so small that conditionally using the new ABI is likely not worth it in almost all cases.