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Re: [RFC][PATCH v4 06/11] Provide backward compatibility for strftime family (bug 10871).

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak at lingonborough dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 14:40:05 +0100
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v4 06/11] Provide backward compatibility for strftime family (bug 10871).
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On 10/28/2016 02:49 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:

As %OB format specifier has been added to strftime/wcsftime
family of functions backward compatibility implementation must be
provided for older binaries which assume that %B returns
a month name in the nominative case.

I think this is a misuse of symbol versioning. Why would I want to pickup this change when compiling from source, but not for existing binaries?


Florian

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