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Re: libstdc++ compatibility
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: libstdc++ compatibility
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 08:52:38 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot com, doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de, egcs at cygnus dot com
> >
> > Evidently this point is an issue for Red Hat: they don't want to ship
> > egcs-1.1 because it breaks binary compatibility with egcs-1.0.x, for
> > this reason.
> >
> > I suppose Red Hat could patch 1.1 to generate thread-unsafe exceptions
> > in a way that gives compatibility with 1.0.x.
> That's a good question!
>
> If there's not any other binary compatibility problems disabling thread
> support at configure time may give Red Hat a way to upgrade from egcs-1.0.3.
>
Did I miss something? I am running RedHat 5.1. I have no problems
using both egcs 1.0.3 and egcs 1.1. One thing helps me is the library
interface. If you want to change egcs 1.1.1 for RedHat, how about
my library interface? It can be specific for RedHat. I can provide the
patch. RedHat can some minor changes to make egcs 1.0.3 happy with the
patched egcs 1.1.1.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)