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In 4.0 wp-config-sample.php contains

/** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
if ( !defined('ABSPATH') )
    define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/');

but ABSPATH is defined in wp-load.php before including wp-config.php

/** Define ABSPATH as this file's directory */
define( 'ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/' );

error_reporting( E_CORE_ERROR | E_CORE_WARNING | E_COMPILE_ERROR | E_ERROR | E_WARNING | E_PARSE | E_USER_ERROR | E_USER_WARNING | E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR );

if ( file_exists( ABSPATH . 'wp-config.php') ) {

    /** The config file resides in ABSPATH */
    require_once( ABSPATH . 'wp-config.php' );

I assume wp-config-sample.php is out of sync with the actual code, but did I miss something and there is some other way to override ABSPATH?

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The official reply is that ABSPATH is more for backward compatibility with code which was written when plugins were including wp-config.php and overriding WP_CONTENT_DIR should be enough.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/29626#comment:3

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26592#comment:8

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