[parisc-linux] binary compatibility

Alan Modra alan@linuxcare.com.au
Wed, 6 Dec 2000 14:53:37 +1100 (EST)


On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> how much do people care if i break binary compatibility again?

I'd be a hypocrite if I did, as I've broken it a number of times.  :)

> i suppose the pain of this would be mitigated if there were other changes
> to the abi that people wanted to make and we could make them all at the
> same time.
> 
> ideas?

o  Remove millicode stuff from libgcc, and make a libmill.a  Support code
   to automagically look for -lmilli is already in ld, but disabled as ld
   will complain if it can't find libmilli.a.
o  Switch over to using dwarf2 unwind for c++ exception handling.

Alan
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