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Re: My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)
- To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>
- Subject: Re: My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 17:01:51 -0600
- cc: hjl at valinux dot com, drepper at cygnus dot com, rth at twiddle dot net, libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <200007111736.e6BHabh26848@delius.kettenis.local>you write:
> In essence, the issues aren't really a libgcc/libc issue. Currently
> all ELF systems have similar problems with getting exceptions working
> in the presence of shared libraries. Most of the other systems with
> shared libraries probably suffer too.
>
> The fact that the Linux libc contains and reexports the frame info
> registration functions make things a little more complicated, and
> might induce the need for some additional tweaks. But the problem
> isn't Linux-specific by far.
Precisely. There's at least two (HP & DEC/Compaq) that have non-linux,
non-ELF systems which suffer from precisely the same core problems.
Jeff