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Re: going forward


On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:52:17PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> Then we can more forward in both directions, stable branch and 2.3.  I
> would prefer to get the gcc3 stuff in before branching but so far I
> have seen no real proof that the patch works.  I mean working not only
> with newly build code, that's the easy part.  I mean with all these
> ugly C++ binaries which are able to run on today's systems.  Without
> such a verification it's too early to add the patch.
> 

I am not convinced that dlopen libgcc_s.so.1 is worth the trouble,
given all kinds of different, complicated cases we have to deal with.
I don't think it is even possible to verify all possible permutations.
After all, we are trying to deal with the future gcc changes.


H.J.


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