Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 01:28:05PM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> > 
> > 1. gcc 3.0 is released sometime this year.
> > 2. All Linux vendors discourage gcc 3.0 on their distributions without
> > modifications.
> > 3. Someone comes up with a Linux patch for gcc 3.0.
> > 4. A gcc 3.x for Linux is released.
> > 
> > It seems gcc 2.7.2.3 all over again :-(.
> 
> Such a situation would not be acceptable, especially since, based on the

I won't want to see that happen. That is why I speak out now.

> record, the GNU/Linux patch may become the de-facto standard without
> sufficient testing and will have ill effects, or even cause an effective
> fork (if some vendors like it and some don't).
> 
> 3.0 is still probably some months away; we have some time still to get
> this right.
> 
 
Get it right for Linux means to somehow make the glibc people to buy
into it. But I don't think the current scheme as it stands is
acceptable to glibc without changes, some of which may be significant
to some people. If the gcc people don't see it this way, .....



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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)