[PATCH] Memory fencing problem in pthread cancellation

Jeff Law law@redhat.com
Tue Jan 15 22:35:00 GMT 2013


On 01/15/2013 07:48 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> There might previously have been a bootstrapping issue in requiring
> a libgcc_s.so to link against because you can't have built all of
> the dynamic pieces of gcc?
Circular dependencies in the build process would certainly be the most 
obvious concern.  You'd think that after 20+ years we'd have figured out 
a better way to bootstrap the compiler + base system library.  Cue 
screenshots of everyone running "make world" to build BSD on their Vaxen...

Jeff



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