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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria

To: chip at valinux dot com
Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at cygnus dot com>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:44:01 -0700
CC: mark at codesourcery dot com, law at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <20000426135643B.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <18427.956806350@upchuck> <20000426230403J.mitchell@codesourcery.com> <20000427171913.F570@perlsupport.com>

> Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:19:13 -0700
> From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>
> Cc: law@cygnus.com, geoffk@cygnus.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
>         libc-hacker@sourceware.cygnus.com

> We had problems on elf-i386 until I introduced a patch that separated
> the exception unwinding format from the number of hard registers.  But
> it's just a happy coincidence that a patch was possible.

I don't believe that this new scheme will allow people to change the
libgcc interface at will, any more than the old one would.  You would
have had a very similar problem.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>

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