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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Paul Zimmermann <Paul.Zimmermann@inria.fr>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, vinschen@redhat.com
Subject: Re: values of FE_TONEAREST...
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:36:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg17n27c.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mw35t7raki.fsf@tomate.loria.fr> (Paul Zimmermann's message of "Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:22:37 +0200")

* Paul Zimmermann:

> I'd like to have the opinion of GNU libc developers on this, especially those
> who are also involved in Redhat Newlib:
>
> https://mailman.oakapple.net/pipermail/cfp-interest/2021-June/002038.html
>
> This was discussed in the last CFP meeting yesterday:
>
> https://mailman.oakapple.net/pipermail/cfp-interest/2021-June/002048.html

I think none of the libraries involved would want to go through the
hassle of an ABI transition.  The values have been like this for a long
time.

There are of course other sources of binary incompatibility, such as
different type sizes.

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-24  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-24  7:22 Paul Zimmermann
2021-06-24  7:36 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-06-24 18:19   ` Joseph Myers
2021-06-24 18:02 ` Joseph Myers

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