The ABI status of ELF hash tables

I'm surprised EAC runs on Linux at all, last I heard that was a blocker for many games on the Steam Deck. Though I'm glad game developers are still engaging in the Sisyphean task of trying to establish trust on an untrusted client. The hours spent playing cat-and-mouse with zit-adorned teenagers who are telling a game server that they can in fact fly through the air seem well invested.

On a more serious note, is there any reason why glibc shouldn't keep DT_HASH around? kilobytes in disk space are hardly a reason to break an application that users are running, even if said application is not one the glibc maintainers like.

> [...] something needs to be done to solve this problem and save gamers from the prospect of having to get some actual work done.

While it may seem silly, there is a large industry of online content creators for whom playing video games is an integral part of work. Besides, we must be wary of glibc maintainers. First they came for Flash Player's use of memcpy, but I did not speak for I was not trying to watch the youtubes. Next, they came for gamers, and I did not speak for I was not a gamer. Once they come for people who spend too much time reading e-mails, there will be no one left to speak for us.