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Re: Linux vs. libio


Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> writes:

> So whether "vtable compatibility" is an issue or not depends
> on which extended glibc-specific features are a documented
> part of the API and how programs access these features.

The problem is not the glibc code itself.  You are right, we can
change the vtables and it should not matter since none of these things
are documented.

The problem is passing C++ iostream classes to the functions in genops
and fileops.

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