strxfrm output stability

Andreas Schwab schwab@linux-m68k.org
Tue Sep 8 21:27:00 GMT 2015


Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> writes:

> Why is it acceptable to change the strxfrm output between glibc
> releases, as implied by several bug reports (e.g. bug 18927)?  Doesn't
> this break backwards compatibility in a major way?

I don't think there is any guarantee of stability in the output of
strxfrm, even between different runs of the same program.

Andreas.

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