libio in gcc in CVS is not compatible with glibc 2.2

[Alexandre Oliva]

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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