check-abi failure with sys_errlist

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.com
Fri Apr 6 16:18:00 GMT 2012


Running check-abi on Linux/x86-64 I get a failure now:

--- -   2012-04-06 18:08:08.937968076 +0200
+++ /build/glibc/testing/libc.symlist   2012-04-06 18:08:08.932632412 +0200
@@ -39 +39 @@ GLIBC_2.12
- _sys_errlist D 0x438
+ _sys_errlist D 0x430
@@ -43 +43 @@ GLIBC_2.12
- sys_errlist D 0x438
+ sys_errlist D 0x430


Andreas, might this be related to your change:
2012-02-19  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@linux-m68k.org>

	* manual/errno.texi (Error Codes): Add EHWPOISON entry.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/errno.h (EHWPOISON): Define if not
	defined.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/bits/errno.h (EHWPOISON):
	Likewise.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/Versions: Add new errlist compat
	entry for 2.16.

I'm confused - why is it suddenly 8 bytes smaller? I would have expected 
8 additional bytes after the change above...

do we need to update sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/Versions as well?

Andreas
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