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Re: linux 2.1.71 and libc
- To: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: linux 2.1.71 and libc
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at ipd dot info dot uni-karlsruhe dot de>
- Date: 07 Dec 1997 00:09:41 +0100
- Cc: vonbrand at sleipnir dot valparaiso dot cl (Horst von Brand), libc-linux at gnu dot org (GNU C Library), egcs at cygnus dot com, linux-gcc at vger dot rutgers dot edu (linuxgcc), linux-kernel at vger dot rutgers dot edu (linux kernel)
- References: <m0xeSly-0004ecC@ocean.lucon.org>
- Reply-To: drepper at ipd dot info dot uni-karlsruhe dot de (Ulrich Drepper)
hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> It happens to glibc 2 also. The latest glibc 2.1 also has 64-bit
> sigset_t.
No. We had and have a 1024 bit sigset_t.
> As the result, old binaries won't work very well. It may
> be easier to deal with in glibc 2 using ELF versioning.
What do you tell? There is not problem like this since at user-level
we use a completely different type.
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