Re: Radical idea, test backwards compatibility instead of recompile
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:31:14AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> You people are missing one important bit of information. libc.so.6 is
> perfectly backward compatible. ..
That's true till (and if) libc is bug free and doesn't have strange
behavior. Even an unexperienced programmer had to led with
undocumented side effect, so maybe it couldn't be claimed a perfect
backward compatibility.
Write workaround is a dirty work and shouldn't be done, but while
there are no fix and debugging libc is an hard work, some developer
can prefer to write workaround and report bug.
Futhermore, if this is not the case and libc 2.1.3 was bug free,
redesign of parts of library could introduce new bug (2.1.94 is a
snapshoot).
If libc.so.6 is no touched at all, well yes is perfectly backward
compatible.
(when a task is too easy, it's easy and common to introduce silly bug)
Daniele
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Daniele Cruciani <cruciani@cli.di.unipi.it>
Universita` di Pisa - Informatica -
http://www.cli.di.unipi.it/~cruciani/
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