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Re: A patch for glibc 2.0/2.1
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>
- Subject: Re: A patch for glibc 2.0/2.1
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- Date: 22 Jan 1999 10:41:28 +0100
- Cc: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu), libc-hacker@cygnus.com (GNU C Library), drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
- References: <199901211953.OAA20327@rabi.phys.columbia.edu>
Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> writes:
|> 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.)
That is completely STUPID.
Andreas.