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Re: My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)


Mike Stump <mrs@windriver.com> writes:

> > This is my I'm currently favouring a standaline package.  But there
> > might be situation where a new libc might require a new version of
> > the libgcc.so
> 
> Isn't this as desirable as a new version of emacs requiring a new
> version of libgcc.so?

No.  The libgcc.so is a system library and closely coupled with the
libc.  Since the interface of the libgcc.so has to be controlled very
strictly this means that updating it will not break existing binaries,
only new functionality (or bug fixes exposed by a glibc upgrade) might
become necessary.

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