Problem with removing atexit.

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 11:52:45AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > 
> > Now, the question is, do we provide backward binary compatibility to
> > DSOs built against glibc 2.0.x? Any comments?
> 
> This seems to be the same problem I ran into on non-i386, with a gcc
> that didn't have the weaksym patch. It's not a compatibility problem,
> it's a bug in gcc. The DSO's need to be recompiled with a recent gcc
> (2.95.4 from CVS, or gcc-3.x)

If you have to recompile a DSO to work with glibc 2.2.3, it IS a
compatibility issue. My question is, should we require people to
recompile DSOs with a right gcc if they want to use glibc 2.2.3?
I don't think we should. But I don't have a good solution at hand
for this problem.


H.J.