On 2009-06-25, Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote: > it is well known that C++ symbol mangling result in different symbol > names from one architecture to the other. It means that libraries that > want to provide symbol files have to maintain one symbol file for each
> architecture. To avoid this problem Modestas Vainius has written a patch > that lets you encode in a specific way the small parts in the symbol name > that vary between architecture. Yay Modestas. > You can check the patch here: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=0001-Implementation-of-the-subst-tag.patch;att=1;bug=533916 > > The symbol name in symbols files become templates that are used at build > time to generate the correct symbol name. The part that are substituded > are delimited by curly brackets like this: > (subst)_zn6phonon11audiooutput13volumechangede{qre...@base 4:4.2.0 > > In this specific case, the symbol is considered to be > _zn6phonon11audiooutput13volumechange...@base on armel > and _zn6phonon11audiooutput13volumechange...@base on other arches > because qreal is a float on armel and a double otherwise. The qreal things is not a different symbol mangling, but different code. qreal is a typedef to either float or douxble wrapped in a ifdef. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org