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Re: [PATCH 6/7] Consolidate alphasort{64} and versionsort{64} implementation
On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> Also on Linux the compat symbol for old non-LFS dirent64 definition
> requires a platform-specific scandir64.c. For powerpc32 and sparcv9
> it requires to add specific arch-implementation to override the
> generic Linux one because neither ABI exports an compat symbol for
> non-LFS alphasort64 and versionsort64 variant. Considering both
> architectures do export other compat symbols for other dirent.h
> functions I think this is a bug (I need confirmation).
If it is a bug, it's also not one that can be fixed (in that there would
be existing binaries expecting both meanings of that symbol at its single
existing version, with binaries expecting the new meaning probably much
more common than those expecting the original meaning of that symbol at
that version).
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Joseph S. Myers
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