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In preparing to release musl 1.2.0, I worked with distro maintainers from Adélie Linux and Yoe to find serious application compatibility problems users would hit when upgrading, so that we could have patches ready and reduce user frustration with the upgrade. Here are some of the findings.

By far the most dangerous type of app compatibility issue we found was in Berkeley DB 5.x, which defines its own wrong version of the timespec struct to pass to clock_gettime :

Note that even without the size/layout mismatch, defining a custom type to pass to clock_gettime was undefined behavior and should never have been done.

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