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Re: libio in gcc in CVS is not compatible with glibc 2.2
On Jul 18, 2000, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> Doesn't this break the ABI? Shouldn't the glibc change wait for a
>> major release (i.e., wait forever :-), or provide an alternate name
>> for the new, correct implementation, while deprecating the original
>> function?
> There is no ABI change, just type renaming.
Then why does the test fail? Is it just a compiler error? I had
understood it was a run-time error, but maybe I just assumed too much.
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