From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Compat symbols in abilist files
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 02:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cdc6700a-bb47-3749-18be-cdd7e7d32fa8@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6453f4f9-75b5-68b9-0e6b-22f40aaee599@redhat.com>
On 04/13/2017 09:09 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I've come up with the attached patch to mark compat symbols as such in the abilist files.
>
> Do we want to do this? The downside is that when building glibc in certain non-standard configurations, some symbols are not compat symbols anymore (the prime example is probably --enable-obsolete-rpc). On the other hand, the additional verification is valuable.
I think this is a good idea. We should detect changes in compat symbols as ABI breakage.
The upstream glibc abilist files should be for the default supported configuration.
Downstream distros should patch the abilist to match their configuration changes.
--
Cheers,
Carlos.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-19 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-13 13:09 Florian Weimer
2017-04-13 13:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-04-13 13:20 ` Florian Weimer
2017-04-18 22:18 ` Joseph Myers
2017-04-19 2:10 ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-04-19 9:46 ` Joseph Myers
2017-04-19 2:06 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2017-04-19 7:00 ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-17 20:59 Florian Weimer
2021-03-17 21:21 ` Joseph Myers
2021-03-18 20:25 ` Florian Weimer
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