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jcglyesterday at 10:52 AM1 replyview on HN

Not my area, but isn't it really only because glibc doesn't maintain stable interfaces across versions? If it did, you absolutely could use the same ld.so with different glibc versions. But it doesn't, so here we are.


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geocaryesterday at 11:10 AM

The C standard isn’t stable across versions.

extern int errno;