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From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: John Marino <gnugcc@marino.st>
Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: dl_iterate_phdr support
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mcrd3mubjfr.fsf@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D58E3BB.10002@marino.st> (John Marino's message of "Mon, 14 Feb	2011 09:11:39 +0100")

John Marino <gnugcc@marino.st> writes:

> Thanks Ian.  If I understand the code in those two files correctly,
> only Solaris, Linux, and FreeBSD is being considered.  If I want to
> use this on Dragonfly 2.9+, NetBSD 5.99+, and/or OpenBSD, I'll have to
> patch these files will the appropriate code.

Right, or even better generalize the test somehow.

> For the others, I am waiting for gcc 4.6 to get branched.  Would a
> configuration patch to these files make it into trunk before it's
> branched?  If you take the words "regression fixes and documentation
> only" literally then the answer would be no, it has to wait for 4.7
> stage 1.

Generally target specific patches get additional leeway even in stage 4.
That would be a question for the *BSD maintainers.

Ian

      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-14 17:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-13  2:15 John Marino
2011-02-14  8:11 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2011-02-14 15:48   ` John Marino
2011-02-14 17:46     ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]

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