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Re: Prelinking of shared libraries
Waldo Bastian <bastian@kde.org> writes:
> On Friday 04 May 2001 14:23, you wrote:
> > How did you get these data? Looking at libkdecore.so.2.0.0, as
> > distributed with SuSE 7.0 (klibs-1.1.2-160), I get
> [Snip]
> > That raises two questions: Why do we get different numbers for the
> > same shared library?
> [Snip]
> > It turns out that most of those relocations are in the .eh_frame and
> > the .gcc_except_table,
>
> I guess Andreas has libraries that are compiled without exception handling
> (-fno-exceptions). We do that by default in KDE these days. You just found
> out why. :-)
That's the right conclusion. I do hope that with prelinked libraries
you can remove the -fno-exceptions again.
Andreas
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