The kernel and the C library as a single project
The kernel and the C library as a single project
Posted Dec 3, 2010 21:07 UTC (Fri) by Darkmere (subscriber, #53695)In reply to: The kernel and the C library as a single project by nix
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A few Gentoo users got bit by that by trying out the gold linker. When you end up with a 64bit linker that dumps core when linking something major, like gcc, you have a somewhat usable but ultimately badly broken system.
So yeah, infrastructure upgrades like bash, glibc, gcc, binutils, python make us all _very very_ concerned. It may not be noticable at first, but if it causes bad code generation or breaks on non-trivial things, you end up with a nightmare to recover.