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Re: GCC-3.0.1 can't compile Glibc-2.2.4
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:16:16AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> > If we don't really care about the old applications, we should just
> > remove __frame_state_for from glibc.
>
> No. Adding requirements to the runtime environment (à la requiring
> libgcc.so) is not at all the same as dropping compatibility.
>
Can you tell me how you install libc.so compiled with gcc 3 on a system
where gcc 3 is not installed and make sure the old C++ binaries which
call __frame_state_for still work correctly when an exception is thrown
inside of libc.so?
H.J.