Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:27:38 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: standards/55112: glob.h, glob_t's gl_pathc should be "size_t", not "int". Message-ID: <20050110092738.GA61964@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20050109193319.mheffner@vt.edu> References: <20050109095304.GD836@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> <XFMail.20050109193319.mheffner@vt.edu>
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On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:33:19PM -0500, Mike Heffner wrote: > > What is the policy for how long to wait after a LIBC major bump before > addressing ABI issues? Currently standards/55112 and an issue with kludge > code in gen/genhostname.c were waiting for a bump before being addressed. > > The bump occurred 2 months ago, is it too late to fix these issues? It's not too late, but I'm not game to make ABI changes like this after what happened last time with stdio. It would probably be best to wait until someone investigates ELF symbol versioning, and whether that can be used to solve these kinds of problems without so many headaches. Tim
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