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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Turn ___brk_addr into a compat symbol
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2020 12:34:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87blftr350.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmy2ixab7e.fsf@suse.de> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Thu, 19 Nov 2020 11:32:37 +0100")

* 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-19 11:34 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 [this message]
2020-11-19 12:25   ` Adhemerval Zanella
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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