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Re: [all-arch][PATCH 00/19] Fix -Wundef warning in SHLIB_COMPAT


On Fri, 22 Aug 2014, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 04:01:21PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > Do you mean some previous patch in the series broke those exports and 
> > patch 20/20 restored them?  The exports appear in libc.abilist so I 
> > presume are currently working as they should, or at least were working 
> > recently.  General principles of bisectability mean things should be 
> > designed to stay working after each patch rather than patch 20 fixing 
> > something broken by an earlier patch.
> 
> I don't think any patches in my series broke it, but I haven't done a
> per-patch analysis for all architectures; I only did that for x86_64.
> For everything else I did comparisons at master, 5/20 and 20/20.  In
> any case, I'm redoing those bits to reduce the impact on other bits.

Well, clearly this series should not change any symbol exports; if there 
are bugs in the exports at present, the ABI testsuite should be showing 
them up, and they should be fixed separately.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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