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Re: Why this strange change?

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Why this strange change?
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Date: 27 Jun 1999 23:22:34 -0700
Cc: hjl@lucon.org, libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com
References: <19990628054422.D9DD557BB@ocean.lucon.org> <199906280603.XAA00787@pizda.davem.net>
Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)

"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> writes:

> I agree that this is completely broken too, broken in the fact that so
> many applications will now break, so at the very least increment the
> version number of these symbols for backwards compatability sake if
> silly nonsense changes like this are going to be made.

Only broken applications will break.  On the other hand, applications
which work correctly on other platforms wouldn't work.

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