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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn ___brk_addr into a compat symbol
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:25:08 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a24e1af-67a8-9cdf-9888-d48a7d4a5469@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87blftr350.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>



On 19/11/2020 08:34, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Andreas Schwab:
> 
>> GCC hasn't been requiring the ___brk_addr symbol since 3.1, and before
>> that only on i386 at least since 2.95.
> 
> GCC 2.7.2.3 uses it as well on i386.
> 
> I think turning it into a compatibility symbol will prevent users from
> using these compilers to link new binaries.
> 

Is this really a wide deployed scenario? And do we really care for that
awkward combination (a 20 years old compiler using an update runtime)?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-19 10:32 Andreas Schwab
2020-11-19 11:34 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-19 12:25   ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
2020-11-19 14:57     ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-24 13:34 Andreas Schwab
2020-11-24 13:41 ` H.J. Lu
2020-11-24 14:46   ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-24 15:33     ` H.J. Lu
2020-11-24 15:43       ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-24 15:56         ` H.J. Lu
2020-11-24 16:13           ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-24 17:16             ` H.J. Lu
2020-11-25 11:15               ` Andreas Schwab
2020-12-02 11:21 ` Florian Weimer
2020-12-08 11:43   ` Andreas Schwab

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