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Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime
On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:48:50PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2001, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:
>
> > The problem solved is that before, every time you upgraded gcc you
> > needed to check whether you needed to recompile glibc.
>
> Hmm... I've been using Red Hat Linux for a while (since 5.0, I
> think), and I've always built my own version of GCC (always the latest
> stable release), but I have never had to rebuild glibc. If EH was
> broken, G++ regression tests would probably have said so. But then,
> I've always built GCC with a shared libstdc++. Was this what saved me
> from noticing the breakage coming from glibc?
>
Yes. I also fixed a bug in the gcc testsuite when someone changed
the libgcc ABI.
H.J.