[PATCH] Don't check ABI for _nl_default_dirname

Andi Kleen ak@linux.intel.com
Mon Dec 10 05:20:00 GMT 2012


On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 06:28:42PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
> > The size is copied into the program by the COPY relocation.
> 
> Yep, that's why I didn't write a patch after reporting PR14664.
> 
> Are applications that use _nl_default_dirname buggy by definition
> because its size can vary from machine to machine?  I'm inclined to

They are only buggy if they rely on a particular size or content
(or rather length, as in strlen, as they cannot even know the true
size)

-Andi



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