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Re: glibc2 & (de)register_frame_info
- To: Christopher Seawood <cls at seawood dot org>
- Subject: Re: glibc2 & (de)register_frame_info
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
- Date: 02 Jun 1998 13:32:45 -0700
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com, libc-alpha at gnu dot org
- References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980602111212.6020A-100000@panic.can.seawood.org>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Christopher Seawood <cls@seawood.org> writes:
> When I compile glibc 2.0.{6,7} with egcs, glibc ends up defining
> the symbols __register_frame_info & __deregister_frame_info. I noticed
> that these are also defined in egcs' libgcc.a Should this be happening?
These symbols come from libgcc and they are added while building the
shared object.
> The real problem happens when I upgrade to a glibc that was not built with
> egcs. Some of the programs I compiled with egcs under a egcs built glibc
> also have a dependency on these symbols. If it wasn't /bin/login, I might
> not have cared so much. :-/
Well, this is something you can blaim the gcc2 maintainer for. This
is an unavoidable compatibility problem.
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