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Re: [PATCH] Add new script add-abilist.py
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 22:02:06 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add new script add-abilist.py
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On 03/02/2015 09:59 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> It's very difficult to find. :-) I haven't tried it, but I think it
>> only patches the current abilist file, and not the other architectures.
>
> That's true. It does an empirical update to the actual new reality, rather
> than a specified updated to a putative new reality.
I think both approaches have their advantages, at least for function
symbols. Data symbols with their size information are more tricky.
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security