Re: The remaining dubious symbols in libgcc-std.ver

["Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 07:50:26PM -0400, Geert Bosch wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>   There are other libgcc symbols used by trampolines on some targets:
>   __trampoline, __enable_execute_stack, and possibly others.  None of
>   them are presently in libgcc-std.ver.  I propose to leave them out,
>   on the theory that we want to mess with this as little as possible,
>   and we can always add them later, but we can never take anything out
>   after 3.0 ships.
> 
> This will disable function closures on Solaris targets with a 
> Sun-recommended security patch installed which disables stack execution. 
> Do you propose removing these symbols only from the shared version of
> libgcc, or from the static version as well? I hope not the last, since
> this would make GCC unusable for some kinds of programs.

I propose to leave them as they are right now in 3.0, which means that
they will not be visible in libgcc_s.so.  If it is found, later, that
we must make them visible in libgcc_s.so, that change can safely be
made in the 3.0.x series.

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