sakaria@vipunen.hut.fi (Sakari Aaltonen) writes:

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>I MUST be missing an obvious point...

    You are.  Shared libraries will soon have jump tables in them so they
will be compatible among versions.  I agree that right now it can be
somewhat annoying, but I also think that the advantages in executable
size and memory use outweigh the annoyance, especially because many people
are running Linux on machines with much less memory than is usual for a
Unix-type system.

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