A patch for glibc 2.0/2.1

[Zack Weinberg]

On 22 Jan 1999 10:41:28 +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> writes:
>
>|> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 11:42:19 -0800 (PST), H.J. Lu wrote:
>|> >> >
>|> >> >Oooops. Here is a patch for glibc 2.0 and 2.1. It will make
>|> >> >those functions weak extern in libc.so. Ulrich, could you please
>|> >> >check it in for both glibc 2.0 and 2.1? Thanks.
>|> >
>|> >On my second thought, Ulrich, please ignore this patch. We should
>|> >keep them in libc.so so that noone else has to define them. That
>|> >means libfoo.so made by
>|> >
>|> ># gcc -shared -o libfoo.so foo.cc -fPIC
>|> >
>|> >will work regardless if libstdc++.so is loaded or not.
>|> 
>|> Then you have to disallow compiling libc with gcc 2.8.  (I personally think
>|> this would be a good idea anyway.)
>
>That is completely STUPID.

Please explain.

zw