On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Paul Kranenburg wrote:

: > I get core dumps and bad behaviour from programs linked against the
: > shared libc. All these programs have been compiled before the following
: > change to src/lib/libc/gen/errlist.c (1.8 1998/02/08 19:07:13 kleink) came up:

: > Is it possible for this change to break old programs?
: 
: Yes. Programs that reference `sys_errlist[]' directly, import both
: the name and the size (since it's a data item) from the library at
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: link time.
: 
: Hence, any change to the size of the array constitutes an incompatible
: interface change that should result in a new major version number.

Not really; remember that the program also gets the _size_ with it, so the
shared library will already supply the number of errors in sys_nerr, which
is the correct number of errors in sys_errlist[].  It's not incompatible
that I can see; perhaps I missed something?

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