Re: Using a linker version script

[Neil Jerram]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Hello,
>
> The patch at [0] makes it so that a linker version script (info "(ld)
> VERSION") is used for `libguile' on platforms that support it (GNU and
> Solaris).
>
> Comments welcome!

Hi Ludo,

I looked at the ld doc, but that didn't make it obvious what the
benefit of this is; could you explain?

Also, does having this script make it any harder to remove something
from the API in future (e.g. by changing its declaration from SCM_API
to SCM_INTERNAL)?

Thanks,
        Neil