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Re: PPC startup code
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- Cc: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>,sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:46:32 -0800
- Subject: Re: PPC startup code
> However, you still need to provide compatibility code so that
> executables that contain the old crt1.o can still run. In practise,
> this means that changing an ABI just to "clean up glibc" doesn't work;
> things just get worse because now you have both the old ABI *and* the
> new ABI to support.
That burden is limited, and not really worse because it's just the same
source code we have now as private function and a public function, made
into a new-versioned public function and an old-versioned compatibility
function that in some future configuration won't be compiled in.