From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 57094 invoked by alias); 2 Mar 2018 20:33:38 -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 57084 invoked by uid 89); 2 Mar 2018 20:33:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 20:33:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Adhemerval Zanella CC: Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] Consolidate alphasort{64} and versionsort{64} implementation In-Reply-To: <1520017165-15830-6-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> Message-ID: References: <1520017165-15830-1-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> <1520017165-15830-6-git-send-email-adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-02.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.2) To SVR-IES-MBX-03.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.3) X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Adhemerval Zanella wrote: > Also on Linux the compat symbol for old non-LFS dirent64 definition > requires a platform-specific scandir64.c. For powerpc32 and sparcv9 > it requires to add specific arch-implementation to override the > generic Linux one because neither ABI exports an compat symbol for > non-LFS alphasort64 and versionsort64 variant. Considering both > architectures do export other compat symbols for other dirent.h > functions I think this is a bug (I need confirmation). If it is a bug, it's also not one that can be fixed (in that there would be existing binaries expecting both meanings of that symbol at its single existing version, with binaries expecting the new meaning probably much more common than those expecting the original meaning of that symbol at that version). -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com