A completely different approach to EH runtime

[Zack Weinberg]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:58:00AM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > You need to describe in excruciating detail exactly what will break,
> > and why.  It is not at all obvious to us why it is a huge problem.
> > Convince us.
> > 
> > Oh, and "I don't trust you not to break the ABI in a future release"
> > will be read as an insult, so don't even bring it up.  Assume we're
> > competent.
> 
> I guess if you were never in a position that your DSO is used
> everywhere, you might not understand all the issues involved.
> 
> Just think about you have more than libc.so.6 on your Linux machine in
> different direcories and they are both visibible to ld-linux.so.2. Can
> you tell me what may happen?

Argh.  What part of "explain in excruciating detail" don't you
understand?  I don't know the answers to these questions.  You
apparently do.  Tell us.

zw