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Re: [libstdc++] Port-specific symbol exports, porting notes
Phil Edwards <phil@jaj.com> writes:
> On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 03:56:26PM -0400, Phil Edwards wrote:
>> Is there any particular need for GCC 3.4 to support symbol versioning under
>> binutils 2.11? The globbing fix was in 2.12. I'd prefer to remove the
>> "if it can magically handle wildcards" test altogether, which will restore
>
> And after testing, this is how it looks. For 3.3, we required either
> binutils 2.12 or a gnu linker with a Linux vendor backport. I have a
> difficult time imagining Linux vendors shipping 3.4 but not a post-2.11
> binutils, so I submit that this fallback test has served its purpose and can
So have I, distributions will not cause a problem directly - but the
problem is developers not using the latest binutils but developing GCC
mainline. We should support them.
> go gently into that good night. (And many thanks to Jakub for originally
> creating it.)
So, with 2.11 we do not create symbol versions? In that case we
should write out a big warning message that the library is
incompatible - or abort completly. A silent failure is IMO worse in
this case,
Andreas
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