Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch

[Mark Mitchell]

>>>>> "H" == H J Lu <hjl@valinux.com> writes:

    H> If I fold libgcc in gcc 3.0 into glibc tody and change the gcc
    H> source to use it instead its own, can I assume it will work

I would not support including such a change in the GCC source tree,
but you could certainly make it in your own version of GCC.

    H> with all future versions of gcc from gcc 3.0? That is all the
    H> "well-defined, stable ABI" about. Since you mentioned a
    H> different interface for EH, I can change the gcc source to
    H> enable the new EH only if its support is available from glibc.

There is no guarantee that new functionality will not be added to
libgcc.  If that happens, you will have to make a new libc that has
that functionality too.

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