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Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime
- To: jbuck at synopsys dot COM
- Subject: Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime
- From: Marc Espie <espie at quatramaran dot ens dot fr>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:47:57 +0100
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure (quatramaran)
- References: <20010222130121.A585@valinux.com>
In article <200102222138.NAA19496@toledo.synopsys.com> you write:
>It should be possible to do glibc development on a machine that you don't
>have root access to. If it isn't, the problem is attributable to bugs
>either in glibc or the dynamic linker. The BSD libc people aren't having
>the kinds of difficulties you are reporting.
Not speaking for other BSDs, but indeed, for OpenBSD things run smoothly.
It might be because we don't believe in symbol versioning and other elegant
things to simplify binary compatibility. So, on an old machine, we may end
up with a dozen libc with minor AND major version numbers (not ELF
everywhere yet, and even where ELF, we still do have minor numbers).
This means that our world is much simpler, linker-wise, and that it
is often fairly easy to update the system... haven't lost any confused
users over it yet either.