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On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 02:54:32PM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 2:37 PM Bruce Richardson
> <bruce.richardson@intel.com> wrote:
> > > - I am considering making rte_function_versioning.h a non exported
> > > header (precisely, moving it to buildtools/ and maybe renaming it).
> > >
> > > This header contains macros not prefixed with RTE_.
> > > Using it requires some build trick (see use_function_versioning).
> > > And I don't see symbol versioning as a MUST infrastructure that DPDK
> > > needs to provide to datapath applications.
> > >
> > > Yet technically, this change would be an API breakage if some
> > > applications indeed relied on it.
> > >
> >
> > Is it not needed for exporting if an exported library header had versioned
> > symbols is in?
> 
> That could be, though we don't expose such versionned symbols atm (and
> I don't think we ever did in DPDK).
> The only public symbol is always the symbol implemented for the latest
> ABI for newly compiled applications.
>

Ok, that's good. Looking through code and code history I do indeed see that
the use of function versioning in the past seems to have all been done
through the C file. Therefore, no issues with making the header
internal-only and not exported.

/Bruce