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LD_POINTER_GUARD, and binary compatibility
- From: "Yuval Kfir" <yuvalk at mainsoft dot com>
- To: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:06:19 -0800
- Subject: LD_POINTER_GUARD, and binary compatibility
Is the environment variable LD_POINTER_GUARD documented anywhere? My
library messes around with the jmp_buf structure a little, and its
behaviour has changed in glibc 2.4. LD_POINTER_GUARD seems to restore
the old behaviour of setjmp/longjmp, but I want to understand what else
it does and what else I might be breaking.
Also: while Googling for information on LD_POINTER_GUARD I came across
the statement that glibc-2.5 is binary incompatible with glibc-2.4 (and,
by implication, earlier releases). Is that correct? If I have
libraries built and linked with glibc-2.3, will I not be able to link
them and run them safely on a machine with glibc-2.5?
- Yuval