My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 02:15:17AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> I wasn't really questioning whether DT_AUXILIARY worked.  I'm worried
> if the little schemes that we all think up here will work in the real
> world, when people start mixing shared libraries and programs produced
> by different compilers.

I have verified on a smaller test case that DT_AUXILIARY does what we
want wrt symbol resolution with legacy applications.

> IMHO we have to allow for an extended period of testing.

Indeed.  I've been having good intentions toward getting this taken
care of for quite some time.  The barrier is the amount of horror I
feel in trying to figure out libtool in a (canadian) cross environment.

But it ought to get done soon...



r~