MT-safe exceptions?
H.J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Tue Sep 9 11:24:00 GMT 1997
> This actually leads to another problem I ran a couple of days ago.
> Now there is C++ code in libgcc, and because gcc has many options
> that lead to binary incompability in C++ modules
> (vtable-thunks at least), it is not practical to use other than
> default options. Other libraries like libstdc++ are easy to recompile
> with desired options, but libgcc is not.
>
> One might think using multilibs for this purpose, but the number
> of permutations will be quite high when combined to target
> specific multilibs.
>
I believe vtable-thunks should be not easily changable. It
should be either on or off. Otherwise, it will lead many
problems as we have seen in EH and libio.
--
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
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