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I have looked quite closely into glibc in the past and there are great many things that could be improved and not using some of the fancy ELf features is probab

I have looked quite closely into glibc in the past and there are great many things that could be improved and not using some of the fancy ELf features is probably one of them. For example symbol versioning doesn't appear to have a good cost/benefit balance.

brandmeyer 5y ago
Symbol versioning is the feature which has kept libc at major ABI version 6 for all these years. The libc5 -> libc6 major version bump gave users trouble for many years afterwards.