[davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com: A (somewhat) strange Sparc library issue...]

[Ulrich Drepper]

Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com> writes:

> The issue presented is that if I "fix this" by making long doubles on
> sparc-linux begin to be 128bits, I have an upgrade nightmare if the
> software library routines are placed into glibc for example.

Since object files cannot be reused but instead only fully linked
files (i.e., shared objects or programs) you should be able to work
around this problem using symbol versioning.

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