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Re: libstdc++ compatibility
- To: jason at cygnus dot com (Jason Merrill)
- Subject: Re: libstdc++ compatibility
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 17:29:43 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
>
> >>>>> H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
>
> >> The library interface patch is irrelevant, since the version number was
>
> > If that is true, why cannot egcs 1.0.3 and 1.1.1 co-exist?
>
> They can. The reason RedHat didn't ship 1.1 was because they didn't want
> another copy of libstdc++, not because they couldn't co-exist.
>
What is wrong with a new libstdc++? It is supposed to be thread-safe.
There are quite a few C++ packages which need a thread-safe libstdc++.
I was even asked to make a patch for egcs 1.0.3 to generate the
thread-safe libstdc++. I told them to wait for egcs 1.1. Making
libstdc++ in egcs 1.1 on RedHat thread-unsafe and not compatible with
other Linux configurations is a very big mistake. I hope RedHat won't
do that.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)