On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:28:46PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005 14:29:12 -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > > These kinds of problems can be solved, but they are beyond the scope of > > this list. > > Well, alright - but which list is it in scope for? GCC is generally pretty > good about this but in a few parts where it interacts with glibc like the > EH code, various changes get through such that the ability to run on older > systems is lost, or compromised in some way. Should this be discussed on > libc-alpha instead?
It seems that the LSB project is the forum that's trying to solve this kind of problem (binary portability on GNU/Linux), and some of the issues you raise suggest that they are underspecifying certain interfaces.
