A completely different approach to EH runtime

Joern Rennecke amylaar@cambridge.redhat.com
Wed Feb 21 21:04:00 GMT 2001


> 
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:56:00PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> > On Feb 21, 2001, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > I see a few possible scenarios:
> > 
> > - it picks the first one it finds.
> 
> That won't work since some binaries may need the newest one.

This would indicate that either the old library was broken - than you
should replace it - or that the new library has additional functionality -
than its minor version should be incremented; then the dynamic linker
will pick the newer library for programs that have been linked with the
new gcc.



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