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SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] [RFC][15/21]e2fsprogs modify variables for bitmap to exceed 2G
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On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:20 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 04:12:27PM +0900, sho@tnes.nec.co.jp wrote:
> > Summary of this patch:
> > [15/21] change the type of variables which manipulate bitmap
> > - Change the type of 4byte variables manipulating bitmap
> > from signed to unsigned.
>
> Generalized NACK. We can't just blindly change function signatures of
> pre-existing functions in libext2fs, since this breaks the ABI with
> pre-existing applications linked with current shared libraries of
> libext2fs.
>
> We could bump the major version number, but what I'd much rather do is
> to create new functions which use the 64-bit blk64_t (i.e.,
> ext2fs_mark_block_bitmap2). This will make the patches much bigger,
> but it allows us to preserve backwards compatibility.

would this be a time to consider using ELF function versioning (similar
to what glibc and others use for abi comat) in libext2fs ?

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