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Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime

To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
Subject: Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:26:38 -0800
Cc: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <hjl@valinux.com> <200102211901.OAA28812@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com> <20010221111159.E11424@wolery.stanford.edu>

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:11:59AM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> I agree, however please be aware that the glibc people have had
> serious problems with the EH runtime in the past.  So they are
> gun-shy.
> 
> Everyone in this discussion should search the mailing list archives
> for "__register_frame_info" and read all of the threads.  The present
> discussion is very much a retread of Dec 1998.
> 

It may just be one of the problems. Making libgcc shared puts libgcc in
the same category as glibc under Linux since it may be linked against
every single dynamic binary from executables to DSOs. Have any gcc
people really thought about what it means to Linux?

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)

References:
- Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime
  - From: David Edelsohn
- Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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