From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12975 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2014 21:18:30 -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 12962 invoked by uid 89); 27 Oct 2014 21:18:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-out.m-online.net X-Auth-Info: rNsNJbgI8WLwQJ157VQJjuO4nxgSDg3gIYTXsueXEStSFpObPRSooPfOdXEFZSzL From: Andreas Schwab To: "Joseph S. Myers" Cc: Andrew Pinski , Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/29] [AARCH64] Fix utmp struct for compatibility reasons. References: <1414396793-9005-1-git-send-email-apinski@cavium.com> <1414396793-9005-2-git-send-email-apinski@cavium.com> X-Yow: Who wants some OYSTERS with SEN-SEN an' COOL WHIP? Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:18:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Joseph S. Myers's message of "Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:57:03 +0000") Message-ID: <87vbn59ppf.fsf@igel.home> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2014-10/txt/msg00646.txt.bz2 "Joseph S. Myers" writes: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Andrew Pinski wrote: > >> NOTE This is an ABI change for AARCH64. > > Shouldn't that imply symbol version changes for affected functions (I'm > not sure how much compat functions at the old versions could do, given > there's a file format change involved here, but it still seems prudent to > avoid binaries expecting the new format running the libc built for the old > format), and warnings in NEWS? IIRC we already had such a migration in 2002. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."