Re: libgcc_s.so.1 exception handling behaviour depending on glibc version

[Mike Hearn <mike at navi dot cx>]

On Wed, 18 May 2005 11:35:30 +0200, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> If I build main with C1, and libf.so with C2, and execute the program so 
> that it uses C2's libgcc_s.so.1, it works.

Out of interest, what happens if you build main with C2 and libf with C1?
That would seem to be a more common situation for distributors of Linux
binaries than the other way around.

This policy of not supporting "build on newer, run on older" is a massive
pain for developers who distribute Linux binaries even though it's very
common: developers often use very new distributions but users often don't.
It requires all kinds of stupid hacks to work around. 

Could there please at some point be serious discussion of making this a
supported way of working? In this case dl_iterate_phdr is weak so could
the decision about whether to use it or not could be made at runtime, not
build time?

thanks -mike