[PATCH 2/2] libc-abis: Define ABSOLUTE ABI [BZ #19818][BZ #23307]

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/28/2018 12:07 AM, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>> Is this really necessary?  It essentially precludes backporting the
>> fixes.
>   Thank you for your input.  Of course bumping up the ABI version is not
> itself required for the change to work, and all existing working binaries
> will continue to.
> 
>   Technically it does not preclude backporting either, although of course
> it is limited by the previous ABI bump, which is (in the reverse order by
> version/date):

Maybe I misunderstood what you were trying to do here.

Will the EI_ABIVERSION in created binaries increase if the programmer 
simply upgrades binutils?  Or will this happen only when particular 
features are used?

Thanks,
Florian