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Re: elfutils libelf.h compatibility
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- Cc: Jake Page <jake at cs dot stanford dot edu>, systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:46:10 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: elfutils libelf.h compatibility
> I agree, this seems like very small concession to improve compatibility.
> Still, I wonder *why* one would want binary compatibility. Is libelf
> considered to be a stable system library in general?
It is, and its ABI for Linux distributions is already in use. It's too
late now.