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Re: [PATCH 2/2] linux: Make profil_counter a compat_symbol (BZ#17726)
On 02/08/2019 12:48, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Aug 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> I tend to agree, but I wonder if Joseph filed this bug because it was
>> something that someone actually encountered as the result of a glibc
>> update. In this case, it strongly points to accidental use of the
>> symbol.
>
> I filed the bug because, when we were setting up the ABI test baselines in
> the first place, it seemed desirable to verify them against binaries built
> from various past glibc versions (to check as far as possible that the
> contents of each symbol version in the test expectations were the same as
> the contents of that version in the corresponding glibc release), and
> doing such verification showed up that symbol as having been accidentally
> removed.
>
> (I did remove the _q_* symbols from powerpc soft-float; those had, in
> glibc 2.4, been accidentally added to version GLIBC_2.2, but had never
> been usefully usable - and made the baseline there reflect the accidental
> removal of __fe_nomask_env which had also never been usable for that
> configuration.)
>
So do you think we can remove them or should we keep them? I do think
we should just remove these accidental bleeding symbols.