A completely different approach to EH runtime

H . J . Lu hjl@valinux.com
Thu Feb 22 10:08:00 GMT 2001


On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:42:21AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> Exactly!  In almost all cases, a user will be adding a newer gcc to
> a distribution that provides an older one, or will be assisting with
> testing gcc snapshots.  It will be much rarer for a user to install
> an older gcc on a system that has a newer one.  It is only in this
> rare case where there might be a problem with having missing functionality
> in the "private" libgcc_s.so.  The solution can be as simple as just
> not installing the older libgcc_s.so at all and let all code (both
> that compiled by the old and by the new compiler) use the newer
> libgcc_so.so that will live (presumably) in /lib.
> 

Have you read

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-02/msg01022.html

Am I wasting my time here?


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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)



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