elfutils libelf.h compatibility

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Jake Page <jake@cs.stanford.edu> writes:

> [...]  With the below change, the elf-utils libelf is source &
> binary compatible with the FSF libelf (as far as I can tell with my
> use of it at least...)  [...]

I agree, this seems like very small concession to improve compatibility.
Still, I wonder *why* one would want binary compatibility.  Is libelf
considered to be a stable system library in general?

- FChE