On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Maarten de Boer wrote:

> Thanks!
> 
> Out of curiosity: how did you manage to keep binary compatibility?

Versioned symbols in the library. They are used for a long of time in
alsa-lib, so we can redefine functions in new libraries like libc-2.x.x
does, but symbols with old versions still have the old meaning.

                                                Jaroslav

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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project, SuSE Labs


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