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Re: __register_frame_info & shared library compatibility
- To: Jamie Lokier <egcs at tantalophile dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: __register_frame_info & shared library compatibility
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 14:42:45 -0600
- cc: "H.J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com, GNU C Library <libc-hacker at cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19990408224135.A21864@pcep-jamie.cern.ch>you write:
> If you're prepared to break the C shared libraries at the same time,
> your proposal sounds perfect.
I'd _much_ prefer not to, but if people are going to demand removal of those
dead procedures then the only time that will be possible is when we already
have to break binary compatibility for C++.
> Sorry, you're right. I have seen big ones before, and I just checked
> .eh_frame and found a small one on a recent C binary. Even a trivial
> program has a tiny .eh_frame of 4 bytes.
Hmmm, I wonder where the tiny .eh_frame came from.. Probably something in
libgcc :-)
jeff