William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 02:14:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>>This "cure" sucks worse than the disease. Now you're putting it onto
>>everyone who maintains userspace to do the same repetitive task of
>>"sanitizing" this. Especially for things this trivial, this is a
>>ridiculous concept.
>>For 2.7, getting real exportable ABI headers is so bloody necessary
>>it's not even funny. However, for 2.5, breaking things randomly is
>>not the way to go.
>
> I would rather have real exportable ABI headers, yes. We don't have
> them and AFAIK sanitized copies are the current policy.
>
Unfortunately "the current policy" is unrealistic, and repeating it
doesn't make it any less so.
-hpa
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