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Re: A patch for glibc 2.0/2.1
- To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: A patch for glibc 2.0/2.1
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:53:52 -0500
- cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com (GNU C Library), drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:42:19 -0800 (PST), H.J. Lu wrote:
>> >
>> >Oooops. Here is a patch for glibc 2.0 and 2.1. It will make
>> >those functions weak extern in libc.so. Ulrich, could you please
>> >check it in for both glibc 2.0 and 2.1? Thanks.
>
>On my second thought, Ulrich, please ignore this patch. We should
>keep them in libc.so so that noone else has to define them. That
>means libfoo.so made by
>
># gcc -shared -o libfoo.so foo.cc -fPIC
>
>will work regardless if libstdc++.so is loaded or not.
Then you have to disallow compiling libc with gcc 2.8. (I personally think
this would be a good idea anyway.)
zw