On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 01:41:25PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar > > There is however one change that the s/390 > > folks will find painful - s/390 broke ABI in 2.19 without a proper > > justification and that is now going to be reverted in 2.20 (and in > > 2.19, but we don't really care about 2.19 right now). > > To expand on this just a bit, the s/390 ABI break was done by the > s/390 glibc port maintainers and was done intentionally. This wasn't > a "oops, we accidentally broke the ABI" bug. It was something the > s/390 maintainers decided was of minimal concern and it turns out they > were wrong. In my experience, glibc goes above and beyond maintaining > their software. This s/390 incident is an anomaly in an otherwise > very controlled and well-run software project. (FYI) LWN article on this subject: https://lwn.net/Articles/605607/ Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
