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Re: [kwzh@gnu.org (Karl Heuer)] glibc-2.1
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Date: 11 Feb 1999 14:56:58 -0800
Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl> writes:
> However, I seriously doubt whether these backwards compatibility
> functions are really needed.
It's not about being needed in general. Fact is that there are
programs which are compiled with the old egcs (esp in distributions)
and people who are now using gcc will render their system unusable.
They are indeed used in egcs-1.0. Did was not clear from the
egcs-1.1.1 ChangeLogs (they are a bit messed up, probably because of
parallel development).
Adding "--undefined=__register_frame" to the LDFLAGS that are used in
generating the shared libc should make sure that the backwards
compatibility code is linked in, both for gcc 2.8.1 and a recent egcs.
Mark