5 Oct
2024
5 Oct
'24
4:51 p.m.
On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, Harald Arnesen via cctalk wrote:
If there's an issue with libc5, then please report a bug; anything ELF is
supposed to continue running.
Support for a.out was removed indeed, I forgot about that. It boils down
to maintenance really: no one was interested in becoming a maintainer and
I reckon calls to fix bugs were unanswered for years. Someone *has* to do
the work, things do not happen automagically.
Maciej
Linux
maintains backwards ABI compatibility as far as both the OS kernel
and the C library is concerned. If something breaks with an upgrade then
please report a bug rather than complaining on a random mailing list (not
that I endorse proprietary or any kind of closed-source software).
Have you tried to run any libc5-program lately? Or a.out binaries?