[RFC/ia64] link against libunwind rather than using dlopen
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Wed Jun 22 14:40:00 GMT 2011
>>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com> writes:
Joel> This is something that I mentioned back in Aug 2005, and which came back
Joel> to bite me a little. Basically, on ia64 hosts, we dlopen libunwind rather
Joel> that link GDB against it.
[...]
Joel> What do you guys think?
Why do we currently use dlopen?
If there is no good reason, or the reason is obsolete, then it is
definitely better to link against a library than to dlopen it.
Tom
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