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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: wrc: change -J to -I-
From:       Mike Hearn <mike () theoretic ! com>
Date:       2003-02-26 19:36:22
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> The wine internal libraries are still about a megabyte of code, and
> it's silly to duplicate all of that whenever a single function
> changes. Symbol versioning is much better solution to that problem,
> and I don't see much reason for not using it (except on platforms that
> don't support it of course).

Yes, fair enough. I hadn't realised that while libwine is fairly small,
libwine_unicode is huge (not sure what it does, but i expect i'll find
out soon enough).

I don't really have any objection to symvers, other than it does mean
it's harder to eliminate "dead" legacy code. That's only really a
problem if the library changes fairly often though, and even then it's
not such a problem these days.


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