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Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at ezchip dot com>, "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Kaz Kojima <kkojima at rr dot iij4u dot or dot jp>, Thomas Schwinge <thomas at codesourcery dot com>, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at linaro dot org>, Chung-Lin Tang <chunglin_tang at mentor dot com>, Adhemerval Zanella <azanella at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Andreas Krebbel <krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 17:18:55 +0100
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.21 - Machine maintainers, please test your machines.
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Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com> writes:
> I agree we change the ABI. Just to clarify though, your concern is thus
> specifically due to ABI changes of sem_t and what they would do in user
> programs (e.g., if a sem_t is part of another struct whose alignment
> changes in return) -- and not regarding how glibc code could fail if
> presented with a non-8B-aligned sem_t?
Both can fail. Just because it doesn't fail today doesn't mean it won't
bite you in the future.
Andreas.
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