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Re: 2.25 freeze status

On 01/30/2017 08:39 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:

I don't think knowingly allow a program to segfault at random without any
warning is appropriate.  Can't we turn the fatal error into a non-fatal warning?
We had extensive discussions previously, and the consensus at the time was that we do not want error detection for corrupt binaries in the dynamic linker. 

I think this is the thread I remember:

  <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-07/msg00480.html>

There likely have been others.

Thanks,
Florian
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