My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)

H . J . Lu hjl@valinux.com
Tue Jul 11 10:40:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 07:36:37PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> In essence, the issues aren't really a libgcc/libc issue.  Currently
> all ELF systems have similar problems with getting exceptions working
> in the presence of shared libraries.  Most of the other systems with
> shared libraries probably suffer too.
> 
> The fact that the Linux libc contains and reexports the frame info
> registration functions make things a little more complicated, and

I believe it is the cause of the problem. Otherwise, it will be
libstdc++.so who contains and reexports the frame info registration
functions, which is the part of gcc and handled by my "library
interface" scheme. It is an entirely different issuse.

> might induce the need for some additional tweaks.  But the problem
> isn't Linux-specific by far.
> 

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)


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