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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:32:30 -0600
- cc: geoffk at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <20000426135643B.mitchell@codesourcery.com>you write:
> >>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> Geoff> I would be interested in knowing what benefits are hoped to
> Geoff> flow from this change.
>
> Me, too. I'm acting here on input from Jeff and RTH, who have
> indicated that this is the Right Thing.
>
> Richard, would you mind summarizing the problems with the current
> scheme and how you making libgcc.so a shared library will help? Also,
> what negative consequences are likely?
Actually Alexandre & Jason can probably handle this better I can. Basically
it avoids most of the insane problems we have with libgcc symbols ending up
in user applications/libraries and conflicting with other copies that are
in other shared libraries.
There's a *long* discussion of this issue in the archives dealing with problems
on alpha-osf and I believe another one with ppc-aix.
jeff