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Re: [PATCH] Remove __ELF__ conditionals
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 08:59, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> What do people think about similarly simplifying the copyright notices in
> glibc, and doing the automatic start-of-year updates,
No. Since the numbers are usually correct this is additional
information which is easily available without doing expansive queries
of the version control mechanism. I used it numerous times to gauge
whether a certain file could be part of a problem just by looking at
that information. There is no reason to destroy information like
that.