[PATCH] Add BeOS support for libstdc++-v3

[Daniel Berlin]

On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Jason Merrill wrote:

> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > I know, it's actually something I noticed in V2. Because libroot is a
> > bastardized glibc, it doesn't identify itself as GLIBC, but a lot of
> > functionality from glibc is there, including the locking bits. Not enough
> > that you can get away with saying it's GLIBC 2.1, too much thinks that
> > means we have things we don't.
> 
> > It's a serious pain in the ass on BeOS.
> 
> Yep.  Unfortunately, Be insisted that we tear all that stuff out; I
> believe they felt this was necessary to reduce the footprint of the
> library, because BeOS doesn't have demand paging.

Err, unless i've got the definition of demand paging wrong (it's 
possible, baby rabbits keepint me up all night digging at the metal 
cage), it certainly does.

It might not have had it when the port was originally done, however.


I've floated the idae of moving to glibc 2.2, since it would be more 
maintainable to use a port than a bastardized obsolete version. It took 
me about a week to get glibc 2.2 going on BeOS nicely. Friends at Be who 
ran the idea past management said it was met lukewarmly, to put it 
kindly. THey see no reason to use antyihg but what they have (I had 
already run down the list of advantages for them).
--Dan

> Jason >