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Re: glibc2.1 [offtopic]
- To: zack@rabi.columbia.edu (Zack Weinberg)
- Subject: Re: glibc2.1 [offtopic]
- From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 08:08:17 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com, egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
> >
> >It works for me. You never gave me a convincing example to show
> >it is broken. Maybe we have different opinions on what "broken"
> >means in this context.
>
> "It works for me" != "it works for everyone".
>
> You localized a bunch of symbols that have been in libgcc since GCC1
> and will never go away. Things like _muldi3. Those symbols are
> re-exported by libc. We can't take them out without breaking every
> binary that needs them.
>
I have compiled glibc 2.1 with my egcs 1.1.1/Linux and installed
it on several RedHat 5.2 systems. Can you tell me which binary I
should check?
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)