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| -rw-r--r-- | ld/ld.texinfo | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index 83c8ac4..4e8cf8a 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -4561,7 +4561,11 @@ When the linker finds a symbol defined in a library which is not specifically bound to a version node, it will effectively bind it to an unspecified base version of the library. You can bind all otherwise unspecified symbols to a given version node by using @samp{global: *;} -somewhere in the version script. +somewhere in the version script. Note that it's slightly crazy to use +wildcards in a global spec except on the last version node. Global +wildcards elsewhere run the risk of accidentally adding symbols to the +set exported for an old version. That's wrong since older versions +ought to have a fixed set of symbols. The names of the version nodes have no specific meaning other than what they might suggest to the person reading them. The @samp{2.0} version |