Basile STARYNKEVITCH <bas...@starynkevitch.net> writes: > Why is it still useful on recent GNU/Linux systems?
In general, it's not. But future versions of gcc may want changes to current versions of glibc. We've seen that happen in the past, and it is likely to happen again in the future. (E.g., we needed to use fixincludes when we flipped the meaning of "extern inline" from the GNU89 meaning to the C99 meaning when running in C99 mode.) Ian