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

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:47:41PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Jul 11, 2000, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> wrote:
> 
> > The problem is we, Ulrich and I, don't believe gcc will do it right
> > for Linux in time.
> 
> Please post your patches, even if they initially only work on
> GNU/Linux.  Since we already have the encoding of ABI in the libstdc++
> SONAME only on GNU/Linux, we can probably start by building libgcc.so
> only on GNU/Linux too.
> 

I will do it as soon as I find some time.

> 
> >> What about rebuilding C++ shared libraries with an ABI-incompatible
> >> GCC?  Do you claim this works on all platforms other than GNU/Linux?
> 
> > My scheme should work since it encodes the C library API, the libstdc++
> > API and the C++ compiler ABI in the soname of libstdc++.so.
> 
> It is my understanding that the encoding of the C library API is only
> done on GNU/Linux.  I'm talking about other platforms.
> 

The maintainers of those platforms have to do it.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)