Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria

[Richard Henderson <rth at cygnus dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 03:59:39PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Does Zack's comment suggest, however, that on GNU/Linux (and other
> systems using glibc) that we should *not* use a shared libgcc, but
> rather depend on the one in libc?

I don't think so, long-term anyway.  Merely that we should keep those
symbol versions in mind when creating the symbol version script for a
system known to use glibc.  Assuming we do that, then a glibc libc.so
linked against libgcc.so will be binary compatible with what we had before.

We do have to be careful, because a libgcc.so will not necessarily
coexist happily with a libc.so that exports the EH symbols.  However,
I do think that glibc probably wants to get out of the libgcc symbol
exporting business -- it's just that before they had no other option.


r~