[Development] abi breakage for qtwebengine libraries in 5.9

[Thiago Macieira]

On Sunday, 7 May 2017 23:38:33 PDT Lars Knoll wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> why can't we just keep these symbols around without exporting them through a
> header file and make them simply forward to the global new/delete
> operators? If we don't export them in a header at least newly compiled code
> would stop using them, and old code would continue working like that.

The problem is not related to compilation and thus headers.

The problem is that the symbols *exist*. Since they exist, the linker will 
link to them.

Now, the problem is that they exist under an ELF version, so when we remove 
them, the dynamic linker will no longer find the plain unversioned ones in 
libstdc++.so.6. I *think* it's possible to provide them under as special type 
of version that allows the previous uses to be found, but no longer allow new 
linking to them (non-default version). But since I don't have qtwebengine 
around, I need information:

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