On Sat, 5 Oct 2024, Harald Arnesen via cctalk wrote: > > 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?
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
