libunwind issue with gcc 3.4 and glibc

David Mosberger davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com
Mon Apr 12 18:10:00 GMT 2004


>>>>> On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:55:11 -0700, "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> said:

  HJ> There is a libunwind issue with gcc 3.4 and glibc. Basically,
  HJ> libunwind causes gcc to generate incompatible libgcc_s.so.1:

  HJ> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14925

  HJ> There are 2 problems:

  HJ> 1. Functions in libunwind aren't versioned.

And according to the C++ ABI, they shouldn't be.  What's the rationale
for GCC to use versioning on those symbols?  Won't that create
compatibility problems with other compilers anyhow?

	--david



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