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From: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] libnative versioning
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Philippe Gerum wrote:
> There is one for the nucleus already, so maybe we could extend the
> feature. This said, the point ABI revs is basically to detect potential
> mismatches; would an old POSIX app run improperly over the new library,
> or would it choke at startup?

The mismatch would occur if running the new library with an old kernel
or an old library with a new kernel, the pthread_cond_wait and
pthread_cond_timedwait syscalls have been replaced with
pthread_cond_wait_prologue/pthread_cond_wait_epilogue.

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                                                 Gilles Chanteperdrix