On 02/11/11 16:24, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Il giorno ven, 11/02/2011 alle 14.23 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner ha > scritto: >> >> But both that document as well as uncountable lines of source code are >> rather old. >> While the source code isn't that large a problem for Gentoo, existing >> binaries >> without source code still are. > > Beside flash what else is involved for now? We can decide that once > that's defined.
I've heard a colleague of mine debugged for 50(!) hours after moving some quite old application to some recent Linux before he replaced a memcpy by memmove, so this did ring some bells. However, now he said this was on Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, having glibc-2.11, so this might have been unrelated indeed. Anyway, running old applications on recent Linux is quite common in "enterprise" world (where Gentoo might not be such a big player). So I'm fine with Gentoo shipping vanilla memcpy, I'm just curious if next RHEL will do. /haubi/ -- Michael Haubenwallner Gentoo on a different level
