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Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.

Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> writes:

> I agree we change the ABI.  Just to clarify though, your concern is thus
> specifically due to ABI changes of sem_t and what they would do in user
> programs (e.g., if a sem_t is part of another struct whose alignment
> changes in return) -- and not regarding how glibc code could fail if
> presented with a non-8B-aligned sem_t?

Both can fail.  Just because it doesn't fail today doesn't mean it won't
bite you in the future.

Andreas.

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