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Re: The library interface again
- To: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: The library interface again
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 98 12:04:53 PDT
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> > The status quo is acceptable for egcs-1.1, so why risk breaking things
> > that this point for egcs-1.1? I do not see that the benefits of HJ's
> > patch outweigh the risk of installing HJ's patch into the release tree.
> > I've got no problem considering his patch for the mainline tree, but I
> > do not think it is wise to install it into the egcs-1.1 tree.
> >
>
> That is fine with me as long as we are prepared to deal any problems
> in egcs 1.1 related to shared libraries in Linux even if it means
> 1.1.1. It was a problem for Linux in the past.
Perhaps the release notes should describe potential problems, and anything
that people should be careful about.
For example, we won't be binary compatible (because of thread-safe
exceptions). Folks for whom binary compatibility is important can
statically link against libstdc++ but still dynamically link against
any C libraries.