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Re: [PATCH 01/29] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Andrew Pinski <apinski at cavium dot com>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:18:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/29] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons.
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"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>
>> NOTE This is an ABI change for AARCH64.
>
> Shouldn't that imply symbol version changes for affected functions (I'm
> not sure how much compat functions at the old versions could do, given
> there's a file format change involved here, but it still seems prudent to
> avoid binaries expecting the new format running the libc built for the old
> format), and warnings in NEWS?
IIRC we already had such a migration in 2002.
Andreas.
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