Re: Module versioning

Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shout.net)
Tue, 30 Dec 1997 15:03:15 -0600


Stephen Williams wrote:

> ... which is why I suggested using stabs information to mangle the symbols,
> or otherwiseprovide a means of type-safe linkage. If the types of the
> parameters are the same name and form, and function names are the same,
> and return values are same type form, this would be pretty safe.

Check out 'objdump --debugging'. It provides the type information
in ascii form.

Here is a problem: my gcc doesn't emit type information for external
symbols. I am using gcc 2.7.2 with '-g2'. Maybe there is some other
flag to set.

Michael Chastain
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