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Re: libgcc_s.so.1 exception handling behaviour depending on glibcversion
Jonathan Wilson wrote:
On windows, it is possible to build a binary using a compiler on Windows
XP that can then run on older versions of windows simply by not using
any features specific to the newest versions of windows XP (or by using
LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress to see if those features are available or
not).
Can you do the same thing on linux?
No, Windows is much better than linux ;)
I mean... Of course you can do that on Linux. But that is not the point
here.
The point here is what happens when you do build-time linking to
functions that don't exist in older versions of the system's shared
libraries (those linked at runtime).
The answer is it does not work when said functions do not exist. And
that should not surprise you.
David Daney.