From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, sguelton@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove __warn_memset_zero_len [bz #25399]
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 10:40:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d00t4fze.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201104093619.GR3788@tucnak> (Jakub Jelinek's message of "Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:36:19 +0100")
* Jakub Jelinek:
> It is ok if it doesn't warn anymore, and it is ok if it is not in the
> headers anymore, but one can still have object files or *.a libraries
> compiled with gcc 4.9 and earlier against older glibc and that will
> now fail to link altogether.
In general, that is not supported. We have recently made an exception
for __xstat. But in this case, linking after removal will only fail if
there was an annoying linker warning before, so I think it's going to be
very rare that this makes a difference.
Thanks,
Florian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-04 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-04 9:05 Siddhesh Poyarekar
2020-11-04 9:19 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-04 9:36 ` Jakub Jelinek
2020-11-04 9:40 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-11-04 9:52 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2020-11-04 9:56 ` Florian Weimer
2020-11-05 4:35 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
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