eliminate gratuitous glue function for reporting the version, which was probably leftover from the old dynamic linker design which lacked a clear barrier for when/how it could access global data. put the declaration for the data object that replaces it in libc.h where it can be type checked.
this cleans up what had become widespread direct inline use of "GNU C" style attributes directly in the source, and lowers the barrier to increased use of hidden visibility, which will be useful to recovering some of the efficiency lost when the protected visibility hack was dropped in commit dc2f368e565c37728b0d620380b849c3a1ddd78f, especially on archs where the PLT ABI is costly.
also fix visibility of the glue function used.
this is still experimental and subject to change. for git checkouts, an attempt is made to record the exact revision to aid in bug reports and debugging. no version information is recorded in the static libc.a or binaries it's linked into.