Thread: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
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misiak is offline misiak
2012-06-14 , 16:05
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#111
I will quote my post from Meecolay development thread, as marmistrz said it may be useful to you:
Originally Posted by misiak View Post
They even compared libc ! you can see there are 8 problems and 25 warnings in columns "Backward binary compatibility problems"! If we fix them, stock calendar app should work with newer libc
The site I'm talking about is http://linuxtesting.org/compatibilit...at_report.html . The report with problems for libc.so.6 is accessible here: http://linuxtesting.org/compatibilit..._Risk_Problems (if you click at "+" signs near functions, you will see the exact explanations of differences). This may explain why new libc crashes some apps
 

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