A completely different approach to EH runtime

[H . J . Lu]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:48:50PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2001, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:
> 
> > The problem solved is that before, every time you upgraded gcc you
> > needed to check whether you needed to recompile glibc.
> 
> Hmm...  I've been using Red Hat Linux for a while (since 5.0, I
> think), and I've always built my own version of GCC (always the latest
> stable release), but I have never had to rebuild glibc.  If EH was
> broken, G++ regression tests would probably have said so.  But then,
> I've always built GCC with a shared libstdc++.  Was this what saved me
> from noticing the breakage coming from glibc?
> 

Yes. I also fixed a bug in the gcc testsuite when someone changed
the libgcc ABI.


H.J.