runtime compatibility of 2.14.90.0.4 with older version

Greg Edwards edwardsg@sgi.com
Fri Nov 21 16:03:00 GMT 2003
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:37:57AM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:
| Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com> writes:
| 
| > Are there compatibility issues with applications compiled with an
| > older version of binutils, e.g. 2.11.90.0.8, and loaded with a newer
| > version like 2.14.90.0.4?
| 
| Applications aren't loaded by binutils.  Are you instead referring to
| dumping objects using tools like nm(1) and objdump(1)?

No, I was thinking of the run-time linking of ld-linux.so, which I see
comes from glibc, not binutils.  Sorry for the noise.

Greg



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