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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 2000 11:14:07 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Cc:        sobomax@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ABI is broken??
Message-ID:  <200011011914.eA1JE7c07768@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A006A58.E8315ABA@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3A005026.47B9978C@FreeBSD.org> <200011011835.eA1IZl207585@vashon.polstra.com> <3A006A58.E8315ABA@FreeBSD.org>

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In article <3A006A58.E8315ABA@FreeBSD.org>,
Maxim Sobolev  <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> John Polstra wrote:
> > Overall I would lean toward putting the hack into pthread_mutex_lock.
> > Comments?
> 
> Huh, why we can't just bump libc_r version number and put older (buggy) version into
> lib/compat as usually? This would not require any ugly hacks at all.

The bug wasn't in libc_r -- it was in libgcc_r.  That's a static
library, so it doesn't have a version number.  And it is statically
linked into old executables.  Nothing we do to libgcc_r will help old
executables, because they won't even use the new libgcc_r.

John
-- 
  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa



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