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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 2000 11:17:37 +0200
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ABI is broken??
Message-ID:  <3A013131.B8BD0BD7@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <3A005026.47B9978C@FreeBSD.org> <200011011835.eA1IZl207585@vashon.polstra.com> <3A006A58.E8315ABA@FreeBSD.org> <200011011914.eA1JE7c07768@vashon.polstra.com>

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John Polstra wrote:

> 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.

Nope it should help, because the bug is triggered if someone tries to use old executables
with new libc_r.

-Maxim



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