Static linking considered harmful
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche at redhat.com
Wed Nov 29 02:38:39 UTC 2006
Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat.com> writes:
> [...] This is a bug in the application for which we just provided
> workarounds for several years, of course the ISV must compile a
> correct valid program, not everything that happens to link is valid.
> If you'd require that any buggy program keeps working, we'd need to
> guarantee bug to bug compatibility, that's not something any library
> guarantees. [...]
Well, there are operating systems that pride themselves on that kind
of compatibility, and achieving it takes great effort. In the absence
of that kind of commitment/desire in linux, exuberant promises of
backward compatibility must be tempered by the reality of buggy
applications.
- FChE
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