It is no longer needed since commit 6c444ad6e953dbdf9c7be065308a0a777
(elf: Do not use memalign for TCB/TLS blocks allocation [BZ #17730]).
Applications do not link against ld.so and will use the definition in
libc.so, so there is no ABI impact.
The new format lists the version on each line, as in:
VERSION SYMBOL TYPE [VALUE]
This makes it easier to process the files with line-oriented tools.
The abilist files were converted with this awk script:
/^[^ ]/ { version = $1 }
/^ / { print version, substr($0, 2) }
And sorted under the "C" locale with sort.