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Re: PATCH: Mark __dso_handle hidden
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 15:44, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> That will break linking with old gcc versions and non-gcc compilers.
> While it is fine to require recent gcc versions to build glibc itself,
> atexit is in libc_nonshared.a.
Agreed. There has to be a really good reason to sacrifice the support
for these environments. Yes, atexit won't perform 100% correct, but
at least it works in the main executable which is all you can do with
these platforms.
HJ, why should we care whether atexit takes a handful more cycles to
execute? What other reasons are there?