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Re: short _file in stdio -> fd leak



>>>> Or we could blow off ABI compatability.  We've done that before.
>>> Where?
>> 1.x executables that use nested functions crash under 2.0, is the
>> first example that comes to mind.
> So you're talking non-standard C code which used a GCC only
> extension?

In my case, yes, but so what?  ABI compatability has nothing to do with
what the source code, if any, looked like; that my examples happened to
have been written in a langauge very close to C is irrelevant.  Any
language compiling to machine code which happened to depend on
executing out of the stack would (presumably) have produced executables
suffering the same fate.

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