Arbitration, which is ulitmately in the hands of Linus T. Where ABI stability is paramount for Linus T., ABI bugs will become features. The glibc/libgcc/libst

Arbitration, which is ulitmately in the hands of Linus T. Where ABI stability is paramount for Linus T., ABI bugs will become features. The glibc/libgcc/libstdc++ found a way around it... which did end up even worse: GNU symbol versioning. Basically, "fixed" symbols get a new version, BUT sourceware binutils is always linking with the latest symbol version, which makes generating "broad glibc version spectrum compatibility" binaries an abomination (I am trying to stay polite)... because glibc/libgcc/libstdc++ devs are grossely abusing GNU symbol versioning. Game/game engine devs are hit super hard. It is actually a real mess, valve is trying technical mitigations, but there are all shabby and a pain to maintain. Basically, they are killing native elf/linux gaming with this kind of abuse.