* Andreas Schwab: > On Okt 09 2021, Thomas Koenig via Fortran wrote: > >> There is no choice - we need to make object code compiled by the user >> incompatible between the old and the new format on the systems where >> we make the switch. > > If you link, but not recompile, object files compiled against different > versions of glibc, you are in for surprises, too. This isn't something > new. There is no guarantee of API stability.
This is of course true, but we nevertheless try to accommodate existing static linking patterns with glibc if possible. Maybe those are more common with Fortran? Then more compatibility for static linking could be pretty much required there. (I don't know enough about Fortran to judge that.)
