[COMMITTED PATCH] Fix missing __sqrtl_finite symbol in libm on sparc 32-bit.

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Jan 26 09:12:00 GMT 2016


Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:

> When I say it works, I mean (a) the glibc with the backport builds OK and 
> passes its tests, and (b) binaries linked with that glibc that don't use 
> the new symbols work fine with glibc of the same version without the 
> backport, while binaries linked with it that do use the new symbols work 
> fine with the glibc version (2.23 in this case) that introduced them 
> officially.

But binaries linked against the real 2.23 version will eventually fail
*at runtime* (not at load time) if they use any other new 2.23 symbol.

Andreas.

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