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

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 06:25:28PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> Another idea that occurs to me: couldn't we just make this variable
> non-static, so that dynamic loaders would resolve all references to it
> into a single memory region?

Not really.  If one has a blessed set of EH routines, one can
implement backward compatible interfaces with entry points that
frob the data before it's processed.  If one has global data,
and it appears there as if by magic, one cannot do this.


r~