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Re: cygwin issues
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans_boehm at hp dot com>
- Subject: Re: cygwin issues
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 12:34:09 +1200
- Cc: "'tromey at redhat dot com'" <tromey at redhat dot com>, alk at pobox dot com, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Lets get rid of it on the trunk and see what happens. I suspect that the
trunk gcc requires a recent binutils on many Linux platforms anyway, and
having a recent glibc is always a good idea.
regards
[ bryce ]
On Friday, June 1, 2001, at 11:27 AM, Boehm, Hans wrote:
>> There's a patch from AG that addresses this for native builds.
>> That doesn't help Windows though. I think we still need it on a
>> couple of Linux platforms.
>>
> Unless its needed for some embedded platforms, we might consider
> getting rid
> of that in the trunk, or for some later version. Recent versions of
> the GC
> under Linux should
>
> I also believe that we're finally in a state in which either the
> current CVS
> glibc or the current linker script arranges to define __data_start
> (preferred! - may even be used everywhere now) or data_start on all
> Linux
> platforms. Unfortunately, that wasn't true for past distributions that
> are
> still out there.