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Re: NPTL for hppa-linux is not backwards compatible with Linuxthreads.

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
Cc: debian-glibc at lists dot debian dot org, parisc-linux <parisc-linux at lists dot parisc-linux dot org>, "Jeff Bailey" <jbailey at raspberryginger dot com>, "Aurelien Jarno" <aurel32 at debian dot org>, "Guy Martin" <gmsoft at gentoo dot org>, libc-ports at sourceware dot org, "Roland McGrath" <roland at redhat dot com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 20:26:57 -0500
Subject: Re: NPTL for hppa-linux is not backwards compatible with Linuxthreads.
Organization: wh0rd.org
References: <119aab440702181143h682c78d9ra0d765b06e08a594@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 18 February 2007, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> NPTL for hppa-linux is not backwards compatible with Linuxthreads, we
> have broken the pthread ABI.
> <snip>
> It has been recommended that we bump to libc6.1 for NPTL. Is that a
> good idea? Are there any comments about how to make such a transition
> smooth for debian, gentoo, and ubuntu?

if the breakage is just in pthreads, i dont think the libc ABI needs to be 
bumped, just the pthread one ?  libc provides look ahead stub functions for 
pthreads, so it shouldnt be affected by the breakage you've mentioned with 
static lock initializers ...

libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread.so.1
-mike

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