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Re: bincompat problem with 2.0.102 (StarOffice 5)
- To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: bincompat problem with 2.0.102 (StarOffice 5)
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 1998 10:46:07 -0800
- Cc: tmrini@ntplx.net, aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de, libc-hacker@cygnus.com (GNU C Library)
- References: <m0zfTPE-000395C@ocean.lucon.org>
- Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> 1. foo uses libx.so and liby.so.
> 2. libx.so is compiled against glibc 2.0.
> 2. liby.so is compiled against glibc 2.1.
>
> I think foo will have a problem with libio routines if FILE * is used
> between libx.so and liby.so.
There certainly can be problems like this. But the only other library
which knows about FILE internals is libstdc++. So keeping this in
sync with libc should be sufficent.
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