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Re: Calls to built-in functions are not Binary Compatible
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: aph at redhat dot com (Andrew Haley)
- Cc: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:33:29 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Calls to built-in functions are not Binary Compatible
>
> This happens with methods like Math.pow() which are converted to
> builtins. Unfortunately, this leads to direct calls to methods in
> libgcj. This breaks binary compatibility when we change gcj's name
> mangling. Which we just did.
Aren't those direct function calls to libc functions though so
they really don't have an effect from gcj's name mangling?
-- Pinski