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To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: COMPAT_43 users?
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In message <20180801075512.GR40119@kib.kiev.ua>, Konstantin Belousov writes:

>Together, all three things allow to run pre-3.x binaries on the modern
>machines, including amd64. I think this is useful at least for 'waving
>the flag' about our ABI compatibility guarantees [...]

2.2.9 was released 12 years ago, I dare say people can suffer running
11.X for all their compatibility needs.

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