A completely different approach to EH runtime

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 22, 2001, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:08:38AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> On Feb 21, 2001, "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > Are you prepared to deal with 2 shared libgcc visible to ld.so at
>> > the same time and one of which doesn't come from the system vendor?
>> 
>> I don't know about you, but I am, for as long as libgcc's major
>> version number doesn't change.

> I have given at least one example to show it won't work.

If some program depends on a newer version of the library, it's up to
the user to ensure the newer libgcc is used.  No big deal.

> Do you know as far as the dynamic linker is concerned, a new SONAME is
> a totally different shared library?

Yep.  On GNU/Linux.

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