Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "Win32 Is The Only Stable ABI on Linux (RIP Glibc)" video.

  1. If it only broke EAC, I'd say good, but as we all know, it wouldn't stop there, because every program that uses EAC wouldn't necessarily get an update. I don't know if EAC is implemented as a dynamic library which could easily be replaced, but I doubt it, and if this change in any way affected its ABI then it wouldn't matter. I guess it boils down to how good of a programmer are they. I'd wager abysmal, but then again I'm a pessimist. And since it didn't break just EAC, and since it's only 16k, and since a stable platform is a better platform, I'd say they need to go back and make it the default again.
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  2. Microsoft doesn't keep the ABi stable anymore? It was through XP, but I haven't used Windows since then, other than a day spent looking at and hating Win10 on someone else's computer.
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  3.  @felipec  You mean glibc when you say recompiling the software, yes?
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  4.  @felipec  Ah okay, then it was a typo in the first post. You meant ABI and that recompiling wouldn't fix it for your user space program.
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  5. Are you a fellow Slackware user? You could always try compiling it yourself. Which if I even update this year I'll likely do. I've got some old games that I play and I don't even know if they use DT_HASH, but better safe than sorry.
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  6. Yeah, I was confused until I paused and stepped through it. He barely changed position and the mic barely moved. Smooth.
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  7. I think if you're using glibc on embedded systems you've made a poor decision. A better choice for such platforms is uclibc or maybe even no libc of any kind. I actually wrote my own modular libc for such platforms because I wanted to go as small as I could. I can literally include only the functions I use.
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  8. @Watcher I'll have to look into that. Might be nice to know what others use to make better recommendations.
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