Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 May 2003 16:30:34 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Recent changes to sysctl.h breaks glibc |
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Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2003-05-19 at 23:31, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>What I find truly puzzling is that obviously intelligent people like >>yourself still seem to think that ABIs remain fixed. > > Because with a few deep system stuff exceptions they do, although they > certainly extend. Rogue for 0.98.5 still runs on 2.4.21 (although you > may have fun finding libc2.2.2)
That's my point, though: the ABI *as a whole* does not remain fixed, even though it evolves according to rules, one of which is try to maintain backwards compatibility.
The "copy-and-modify" mantra doesn't take that into account, nevermind the GPL issues.
-hpa
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