Exception size reduction patch

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Fri Apr 24 10:11:00 GMT 1998


On Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 06:13:47PM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote:
> It isn't clear to me why you moved all of the eh.o stuff from libgcc2.c to
> frame.c.  That just seems to make the patch larger than it needs to be.

Because a weak symbol reference won't pull an object out of a library
archive.  You've got to put those functions in an object with some
other symbols that will definitely get pulled in when EH is in use.


r~



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