bincompat problem with 2.0.102 (StarOffice 5)

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> 
> > 1. foo uses libx.so and liby.so.
> > 2. libx.so is compiled against glibc 2.0.
> > 2. liby.so is compiled against glibc 2.1.
> > 
> > I think foo will have a problem with libio routines if FILE * is used
> > between libx.so and liby.so.
> 
> There certainly can be problems like this.  But the only other library
> which knows about FILE internals is libstdc++.  So keeping this in
> sync with libc should be sufficent.

I don't think so. Say we have

extern FILE *fp;

In libx.so, we have

	fp = fopen (.....);

In liby.so, we have

	fclose (fp);

Can you tell me which fopen/fclose are used, Old or new?


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)