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<title>LD: VERSION</title>
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<a name="VERSION"></a>
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<p>
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Next: <a href="Expressions.html#Expressions" accesskey="n" rel="next">Expressions</a>, Previous: <a href="PHDRS.html#PHDRS" accesskey="p" rel="prev">PHDRS</a>, Up: <a href="Scripts.html#Scripts" accesskey="u" rel="up">Scripts</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="LD-Index.html#LD-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="VERSION-Command"></a>
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<h3 class="section">3.9 VERSION Command</h3>
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<a name="index-VERSION-_007bscript-text_007d"></a>
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<a name="index-symbol-versions"></a>
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<a name="index-version-script"></a>
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<a name="index-versions-of-symbols"></a>
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<p>The linker supports symbol versions when using ELF. Symbol versions are
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only useful when using shared libraries. The dynamic linker can use
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symbol versions to select a specific version of a function when it runs
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a program that may have been linked against an earlier version of the
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shared library.
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</p>
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<p>You can include a version script directly in the main linker script, or
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you can supply the version script as an implicit linker script. You can
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also use the ‘<samp>--version-script</samp>’ linker option.
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</p>
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<p>The syntax of the <code>VERSION</code> command is simply
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</p><div class="smallexample">
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<pre class="smallexample">VERSION { version-script-commands }
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</pre></div>
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<p>The format of the version script commands is identical to that used by
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Sun’s linker in Solaris 2.5. The version script defines a tree of
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version nodes. You specify the node names and interdependencies in the
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version script. You can specify which symbols are bound to which
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version nodes, and you can reduce a specified set of symbols to local
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scope so that they are not globally visible outside of the shared
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library.
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</p>
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<p>The easiest way to demonstrate the version script language is with a few
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examples.
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</p>
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<div class="smallexample">
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<pre class="smallexample">VERS_1.1 {
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global:
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foo1;
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local:
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old*;
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original*;
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new*;
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};
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VERS_1.2 {
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foo2;
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} VERS_1.1;
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VERS_2.0 {
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bar1; bar2;
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extern "C++" {
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ns::*;
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"f(int, double)";
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};
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} VERS_1.2;
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</pre></div>
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<p>This example version script defines three version nodes. The first
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version node defined is ‘<samp>VERS_1.1</samp>’; it has no other dependencies.
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The script binds the symbol ‘<samp>foo1</samp>’ to ‘<samp>VERS_1.1</samp>’. It reduces
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a number of symbols to local scope so that they are not visible outside
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of the shared library; this is done using wildcard patterns, so that any
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symbol whose name begins with ‘<samp>old</samp>’, ‘<samp>original</samp>’, or ‘<samp>new</samp>’
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is matched. The wildcard patterns available are the same as those used
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in the shell when matching filenames (also known as “globbing”).
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However, if you specify the symbol name inside double quotes, then the
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name is treated as literal, rather than as a glob pattern.
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</p>
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<p>Next, the version script defines node ‘<samp>VERS_1.2</samp>’. This node
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depends upon ‘<samp>VERS_1.1</samp>’. The script binds the symbol ‘<samp>foo2</samp>’
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to the version node ‘<samp>VERS_1.2</samp>’.
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</p>
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<p>Finally, the version script defines node ‘<samp>VERS_2.0</samp>’. This node
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depends upon ‘<samp>VERS_1.2</samp>’. The scripts binds the symbols ‘<samp>bar1</samp>’
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and ‘<samp>bar2</samp>’ are bound to the version node ‘<samp>VERS_2.0</samp>’.
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</p>
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<p>When the linker finds a symbol defined in a library which is not
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specifically bound to a version node, it will effectively bind it to an
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unspecified base version of the library. You can bind all otherwise
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unspecified symbols to a given version node by using ‘<samp>global: *;</samp>’
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somewhere in the version script. Note that it’s slightly crazy to use
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wildcards in a global spec except on the last version node. Global
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wildcards elsewhere run the risk of accidentally adding symbols to the
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set exported for an old version. That’s wrong since older versions
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ought to have a fixed set of symbols.
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</p>
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<p>The names of the version nodes have no specific meaning other than what
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they might suggest to the person reading them. The ‘<samp>2.0</samp>’ version
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could just as well have appeared in between ‘<samp>1.1</samp>’ and ‘<samp>1.2</samp>’.
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However, this would be a confusing way to write a version script.
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</p>
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<p>Node name can be omitted, provided it is the only version node
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in the version script. Such version script doesn’t assign any versions to
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symbols, only selects which symbols will be globally visible out and which
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won’t.
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</p>
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<div class="smallexample">
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<pre class="smallexample">{ global: foo; bar; local: *; };
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</pre></div>
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<p>When you link an application against a shared library that has versioned
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symbols, the application itself knows which version of each symbol it
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requires, and it also knows which version nodes it needs from each
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shared library it is linked against. Thus at runtime, the dynamic
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loader can make a quick check to make sure that the libraries you have
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linked against do in fact supply all of the version nodes that the
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application will need to resolve all of the dynamic symbols. In this
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way it is possible for the dynamic linker to know with certainty that
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all external symbols that it needs will be resolvable without having to
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search for each symbol reference.
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</p>
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<p>The symbol versioning is in effect a much more sophisticated way of
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doing minor version checking that SunOS does. The fundamental problem
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that is being addressed here is that typically references to external
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functions are bound on an as-needed basis, and are not all bound when
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the application starts up. If a shared library is out of date, a
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required interface may be missing; when the application tries to use
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that interface, it may suddenly and unexpectedly fail. With symbol
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versioning, the user will get a warning when they start their program if
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the libraries being used with the application are too old.
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</p>
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<p>There are several GNU extensions to Sun’s versioning approach. The
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first of these is the ability to bind a symbol to a version node in the
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source file where the symbol is defined instead of in the versioning
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script. This was done mainly to reduce the burden on the library
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maintainer. You can do this by putting something like:
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</p><div class="smallexample">
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<pre class="smallexample">__asm__(".symver original_foo,foo@VERS_1.1");
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</pre></div>
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<p>in the C source file. This renames the function ‘<samp>original_foo</samp>’ to
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be an alias for ‘<samp>foo</samp>’ bound to the version node ‘<samp>VERS_1.1</samp>’.
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The ‘<samp>local:</samp>’ directive can be used to prevent the symbol
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‘<samp>original_foo</samp>’ from being exported. A ‘<samp>.symver</samp>’ directive
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takes precedence over a version script.
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</p>
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<p>The second GNU extension is to allow multiple versions of the same
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function to appear in a given shared library. In this way you can make
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an incompatible change to an interface without increasing the major
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version number of the shared library, while still allowing applications
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linked against the old interface to continue to function.
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</p>
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<p>To do this, you must use multiple ‘<samp>.symver</samp>’ directives in the
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source file. Here is an example:
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</p>
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<div class="smallexample">
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<pre class="smallexample">__asm__(".symver original_foo,foo@");
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__asm__(".symver old_foo,foo@VERS_1.1");
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__asm__(".symver old_foo1,foo@VERS_1.2");
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__asm__(".symver new_foo,foo@@VERS_2.0");
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</pre></div>
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<p>In this example, ‘<samp>foo@</samp>’ represents the symbol ‘<samp>foo</samp>’ bound to the
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unspecified base version of the symbol. The source file that contains this
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example would define 4 C functions: ‘<samp>original_foo</samp>’, ‘<samp>old_foo</samp>’,
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‘<samp>old_foo1</samp>’, and ‘<samp>new_foo</samp>’.
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</p>
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<p>When you have multiple definitions of a given symbol, there needs to be
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some way to specify a default version to which external references to
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this symbol will be bound. You can do this with the
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‘<samp>foo@@VERS_2.0</samp>’ type of ‘<samp>.symver</samp>’ directive. You can only
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declare one version of a symbol as the default in this manner; otherwise
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you would effectively have multiple definitions of the same symbol.
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</p>
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<p>If you wish to bind a reference to a specific version of the symbol
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within the shared library, you can use the aliases of convenience
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(i.e., ‘<samp>old_foo</samp>’), or you can use the ‘<samp>.symver</samp>’ directive to
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specifically bind to an external version of the function in question.
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</p>
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<p>You can also specify the language in the version script:
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</p>
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<div class="smallexample">
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<pre class="smallexample">VERSION extern "lang" { version-script-commands }
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</pre></div>
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<p>The supported ‘<samp>lang</samp>’s are ‘<samp>C</samp>’, ‘<samp>C++</samp>’, and ‘<samp>Java</samp>’.
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The linker will iterate over the list of symbols at the link time and
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demangle them according to ‘<samp>lang</samp>’ before matching them to the
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patterns specified in ‘<samp>version-script-commands</samp>’. The default
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‘<samp>lang</samp>’ is ‘<samp>C</samp>’.
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</p>
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<p>Demangled names may contains spaces and other special characters. As
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described above, you can use a glob pattern to match demangled names,
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or you can use a double-quoted string to match the string exactly. In
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the latter case, be aware that minor differences (such as differing
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whitespace) between the version script and the demangler output will
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cause a mismatch. As the exact string generated by the demangler
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might change in the future, even if the mangled name does not, you
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should check that all of your version directives are behaving as you
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expect when you upgrade.
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Next: <a href="Expressions.html#Expressions" accesskey="n" rel="next">Expressions</a>, Previous: <a href="PHDRS.html#PHDRS" accesskey="p" rel="prev">PHDRS</a>, Up: <a href="Scripts.html#Scripts" accesskey="u" rel="up">Scripts</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="LD-Index.html#LD-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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