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


On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 12:38:04PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> It would be really advised that before gcc people take up the task of
> maintaining ABIs they look into the problems this involves in other
> projects.
> 

Please take Ulrich's word for it. He was speaking from his experiences
maintaining the glibc runtime ABI in such a way that it will work with
all the existing binaries. It is a very difficult task. I don't think
gcc should take it before people know what is involved.


H.J.


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