[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] restoring binary compatibility with ffmpeg 0.5

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:32:19PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> >> so it will still break compatibility to some previous versions.
> >
> > do you assume this or have you tested this?
> 
> It changes the name of the symbol.  Anything linked against current
> libavcodec will fail after this change.

Well, I at least just assumed this.
I expect (but I don't know) that adding an extra .symver will "solve" this
for gcc+gas even without the extra entry in the version script.
We'd then be down to only breaking compatibility on some platforms and
only to some versions (not to 0.5).