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On 08/30/2014 05:47 AM, Paul Bolle wrote:
> 
> Obviously, this can only break compiling those libraries, or other
> users. It can't break already compiled binaries. Besides I don't think
> those libraries, etc actually exist. Maximilian mentioned klibc in
> January, but I wasn't able to find a version of klibc that cared about
> this prototype. No one pointed me at a version that does (or any other
> library, etc., for that matter).
> 

... and that would be a klibc bug and we'd just fix it.

	-hpa