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Re: Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
- Subject: Re: Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:39:35 -0800
- Cc: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <01021523111501.01075@enzo.bigblue.local> <20010215154529.A1933@valinux.com>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:45:29PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 1. Make a ABI and stick to it.
Yes, but that's obvious.
> 2. Move it out of gcc and treat it like libstdc++.
No.
> 3. Install it undr /lib for Linux.
Yes, but not via gcc's "make install".
> 4. Since we have a published ABI, we can have one in glibc and gcc
> can use it instead of its own under Linux.
You almost certainly don't want to do that.
> The key issue here is a well-defined, published and stable ABI for
> libgcc.
Duh.
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