Re: Re: [UnixOS2] libc

Andreas Buening <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Jun 2003 19:48:49 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ide.emx.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Holger Veit wrote:

[snip]

> We only have to preserve compatibility in that we need some fseek() and
> fseek_64() at all, not with binary compatibility with existing code
> (this can still access the old EMX DLLs and will be happy).

I can understand why you'd like to break binary compatibility.
However, I have a bad feeling about doing this. Some libraries
do this sometimes and this leads to a set of incompatible
binary files which can become quite nasty. I'd like to keep also
binary compatibility.

[snip]


Bye,
Andreas