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Re: [PATCH] Don't check ABI for _nl_default_dirname
Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Not really. The prefix is constant for a distribution; any change in
> it is essentially an ABI change for the distribution, which glibc
> should be under no obligation to verify. The attempt here is to
> verify that no *code change* results in broken ABI.
Surely another goal is that programs built on one distro continue to
work on others, no? ;-)
Distributions run the test suite, too, and one goal of this is to
verify that they have not accidentally broken their libc's ability to
interoperate with the rest of the world.
Jonathan