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Re: libio in gcc in CVS is not compatible with glibc 2.2
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Subject: Re: libio in gcc in CVS is not compatible with glibc 2.2
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 18 Jul 2000 14:23:01 -0300
- Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20000717235020.A29373@lucon.org>
On Jul 18, 2000, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> wrote:
> The return type of _IO_seekoff in glibc 2.2 is changed from _IO_pos_t
> to _IO_off_t.
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?
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