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Re: [BZ #7064] Put vm86 into libc.a


On 20 Apr 2012, Andreas Jaeger verbalised:

> vm86 is not included in libc.a at all, the following patch fixes this.

Wow! Talk about a blast from the past!

Thanks for following up on this -- I had (unsurprisingly) quite
forgotten about it, not least due to not having any systems capable of
using vm86() at all anymore.

> An alternative would be to teach make-syscalls.sh about default
> symbols since versioned symbols only end in the shared library.

I tried that first, but this seemed ever so much simpler and less
likely for a neophyte like me to get wrong.


(As an aside, I have patches for full compilation of all of glibc bar
ld.so with -fstack-protector-all which I can update for glibc trunk if
you wish. They have found one bug in glibc itself -- since fixed -- but
that didn't stop them being rejected without comment the one and only
time I tried to submit them, years ago. In keeping with the new spirit
of glasnost I can resubmit if you wish.)

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