Problems with exception handling in glibc and gcc.

[H . J . Lu]

On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 06:05:27PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> 
> > However, since frame_state is changed, I am not sure if the old frame.o
> > from the previous libgcc.a linked into the shared glibc will work
> > with the _eh.o from the new libgcc.a. The exception ABI has changed
> > due to frame_state, but I don't see anything for backward
> > compatility.
> 
> Sigh.  Yes, that change has to be reverted or dealt with somehow.
> 

One way to deal with it to give new function names to the new ABI
and still keep the old funtions for the old ABI. Is that doable?


H.J.