From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16272 invoked by alias); 4 Nov 2016 13:40:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-alpha-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-alpha-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 16170 invoked by uid 89); 4 Nov 2016 13:40:10 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=month, family X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH v4 06/11] Provide backward compatibility for strftime family (bug 10871). To: Rafal Luzynski , libc-alpha@sourceware.org References: <758885038.1799972.1477615768169@poczta.nazwa.pl> From: Florian Weimer Message-ID: <71b7640e-55b0-06a5-1dff-b0fcbaf0eea9@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 13:40:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <758885038.1799972.1477615768169@poczta.nazwa.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2016-11/txt/msg00160.txt.bz2 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