Re: [Xen-devel] RFC/Proposal: Partial `libxenctrl` API/ABI stabilisation

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 19.05.15 at 10:40, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-05-18 at 17:06 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> >>> On 18.05.15 at 17:30, <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > `libxenctrl` today exposes many symbols which look to be internal. We
>> > should consider also reducing that set by using
>> > `__attribute__((visibility("hidden")))`.
>> 
>> Or a version script?
> 
> Sure, I'm not familiar with the relative merits, I suppose it's just
> white- vs blacklist. I'm happy to go whichever way people prefer.

Version scripts allow for both white and black listing. And they
also help with retaining older version compatibility implementations
of functions having got changed in an incompatible way in a newer
version.

Jan


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