[pcre-dev] [Bug 664] ABI breakage in PCRE 7.6

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Author: Daniel Johnson
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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 664] ABI breakage in PCRE 7.6
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664




--- Comment #29 from Daniel Johnson <daniel@???> 2008-03-28 23:40:33 ---
(In reply to comment #28)
> OK, here's a patch that uses the -alias flag on os x, and
> __attribute__((alias)) on elf systems. Daniel, can you try this
> (you can patch against svn root) and let me know if it works for you?
> It worked on my simple test case, but I didn't have a convenient
> real-world example to try it with.
>
> craig
>


Aha! The -alias flag does indeed work! And I can confirm that it fixes the ABI
breakage in a real program that had previously broken. I've backported the flag
to my pcre 7.6 package and all is now right with my tiny part of the world.
Thanks!

Daniel


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