Re: GCC-3.0.1 can't compile Glibc-2.2.4

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 12:22:10AM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 
> > Aport from the problem indicated above, there's no point in installing
> > Jakub's patch as long as libstdc++ still contains a copy of
> > __frame_state_for.  A remedy was briefly discussed on libc-alpha,
> 
> I believe it is a task for distribution vendors to fix up their
> compatibility compilers (note all of them need to be fixed, not just
> 2.95.latest).
> 
> > see:
> > 
> >   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-09/msg00017.html
> > 
> > and subsequent messages.  I'm not sure concensus has been reached on
> > this issue.
> 
> I think rth's suggested -( -lc -lgcc -) may be costly (as libc symbol count
> is not exactly small), will need to check what ld will actually do in that
> case.

Can't we make __frame_state_for in libgcc.a from gcc 2 STV_HIDDEN? Of
course, we should only do it for Linux. It shouldn't be too hard to do.
I can provide a patch if needed.


H.J.