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Re: Proposed change to ppc32 ucontext_t
Paul Mackerras wrote:
> In other
> words, all 2.5/2.6 releases except for 2.6.0-test5 are compatible with
> the patch I sent today.
OK, then I'm all for the patch.
> The situation is that ucontext_t on ppc32 has increased in size
Then symbol versioning is needed.
> Do we need to make sure
> that programs compiled against older glibc releases continue to get
> the non-functional stubs?
Object files are not guaranteed to be compatible. Executables and DSOs
are handled by symbol versioning. So you need to extend your patch to
provide compatible definitions.
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