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Re: Restore __eprintf
On May 31, 2001, Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
> You may also need to remove any object files or static libraries
> compiled with older versions of gcc, since they might contain
> references to __eprintf().
This shouldn't be a problem in general, assuming you're going to use
these object files and static libraries to create executables.
Indeed, if you use them to create shared libraries, they won't find
__eprintf() in libgcc_s, but for executables, __eprintf() will be
present in the static libgcc. Even in the case of shared libraries,
the work-around is not that difficult:
-nodefaultlibs -lgcc_s -lc -lgcc_s -lgcc -lc -lgcc
> Or alternatively, how about putting it in the shared glibc for all
> architectures, marking it as deprecated, and then removing it in GCC 4.0?
There's no reason to introduce this binary compatibility problem right
now. Perhaps we should even install libeprintf.a, containing
only eprintf.o, so that the work-around would be even simpler:
-leprintf.
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