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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Rafal Luzynski <digitalfreak@lingonborough.com>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v4 06/11] Provide backward compatibility for strftime family (bug 10871).
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <71b7640e-55b0-06a5-1dff-b0fcbaf0eea9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <758885038.1799972.1477615768169@poczta.nazwa.pl>

On 10/28/2016 02:49 AM, Rafal Luzynski wrote:
> As %OB format specifier has been added to strftime/wcsftime
> family of functions backward compatibility implementation must be
> provided for older binaries which assume that %B returns
> a month name in the nominative case.

I think this is a misuse of symbol versioning.  Why would I want to pick 
up this change when compiling from source, but not for existing binaries?

Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-04 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-28  0:49 Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-04 13:40 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2016-11-05 10:53   ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-07 14:13     ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-08 11:39       ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-09 10:49         ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-10  0:33           ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-10 12:41             ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-10 18:42               ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-10 19:19                 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-15  1:21                   ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-11  3:52             ` Rical Jasan
2016-11-15  1:38               ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-15 11:09                 ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-16 13:06                 ` Rical Jasan
2016-11-17 11:18                   ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-18  9:22                     ` Rical Jasan
2016-11-22 23:56                       ` Rafal Luzynski
2016-11-09 11:00       ` Florian Weimer

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