libgcc_s, Linux, and PT_GNU_EH_FRAME, and binutils

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:

> > So what do we do?  Personally I'm for fixing the bug.
>
> Blech.  I don't like that we broke the C ABI, but I'm not sure I like
> breaking it again in the name of fixing it, some two years later.

Well, it was only broken in one released version of gcc, which isn't in
wide use yet (3.0.x).  Redhat's 2.96 has it also, but ...

> I guess the fact that nobody noticed until now suggests that maybe
> the problem isn't very common, which makes either decision less
> important.

The more it should be fixed, then.  Unless we want to cast that breakage
in stone.


Ciao,
Michael.