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Re: libgcc_s.so.1 exception handling behaviour depending on glibc version
On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 02:28:46PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> On Wed, 18 May 2005 14:29:12 -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> > These kinds of problems can be solved, but they are beyond the scope of
> > this list.
>
> Well, alright - but which list is it in scope for? GCC is generally pretty
> good about this but in a few parts where it interacts with glibc like the
> EH code, various changes get through such that the ability to run on older
> systems is lost, or compromised in some way. Should this be discussed on
> libc-alpha instead?
It seems that the LSB project is the forum that's trying to solve this
kind of problem (binary portability on GNU/Linux), and some of the issues
you raise suggest that they are underspecifying certain interfaces.