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Re: Why this strange change?

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Why this strange change?
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Date: 28 Jun 1999 08:27:36 -0700
Cc: kukuk@suse.de, hjl@lucon.org, libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com
References: <19990628045533.10ADB57BB@ocean.lucon.org> <19990628090959.A7746@Wotan.suse.de> <199906280744.AAA01960@pizda.davem.net>
Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)

"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:

> So the X Window System is not portable and it should be made broken by
> this GLIBC change?

You know very well that the X source code is a big accumulation of
#ifdefs.  It can easily be fixed.

And for backward compatibility one can add a symbol version returning
-1.

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References:
- Why this strange change?
  - From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Re: Why this strange change?
  - From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>

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