Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1: byteorder.h breaks with __STRICT_ANSI__ defined (trivial)

Thomas Horsten
2003-05-07T06:47:14Z

On Wednesday 07 May 2003 7:45 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> That's highly broken because his libc was compiled against 2.2 headers.
> You must never use different headers in /usr/include/Pasm,linux} then those
> your libc was compiled against.

I don't see why moving up should be wrong - the ABI is {guaranteed | supposed}
to remain backward compatible so the libc itself should be fine, and using
the newer headers to build apps shouldn't hurt - at least I can't see any
obvious cases (there are probably some, but at any rate I, have seen this
work without problems a number of times, without rebuilding libc but using
new features from the kernel, like iptables).

In any case, it doesn't change my example, just let Joe Admin rebuild glibc as
well :-)

// Thomas