Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:45:29PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 1. Make a ABI and stick to it.

Yes, but that's obvious.

> 2. Move it out of gcc and treat it like libstdc++.

No.

> 3. Install it undr /lib for Linux.

Yes, but not via gcc's "make install".

> 4. Since we have a published ABI, we can have one in glibc and gcc
> can use it instead of its own under Linux.

You almost certainly don't want to do that.

> The key issue here is a well-defined, published and stable ABI for
> libgcc.

Duh.


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