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Re: [libc-alpha] Re: Wish for 2002 ...
- From: tb at becket dot net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
- To: Kaz Kylheku <kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net>
- Cc: Shawn Starr <spstarr at sh0n dot net>, <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 13 Jan 2002 13:14:41 -0800
- Subject: Re: [libc-alpha] Re: Wish for 2002 ...
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201131142260.8860-100000@ashi.FootPrints.net>
Kaz Kylheku <kaz@ashi.footprints.net> writes:
> Peple who write programs in C are not ``common users''. The GNU C
> library has lots of users who don't write programs in C, or in anything.
> They need to depend on this library to be stable and upgradable.
Yeah, but you think that "touching" functions causes them to be
unstable. That kind of thinking suggests only that the surest way to
make the library stable is to make sure that you don't have anything
to do with it.
Thomas