From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexandre Oliva To: Jason Merrill Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: egcs and exceptions Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 06:36:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 1998-11/msg00113.html On Nov 3, 1998, Jason Merrill wrote: >>>>>> Alexandre Oliva writes: >> But the doubt is: must you do that, or can you just compile and link >> foo.cc with -fsjlj-exceptions on Solaris and it will work? > It may work, but not reliably. You know... The more I think about these options that require the whole library to be rebuilt, the more I believe we should require them to be specified at some point in compile-time in order to enable them at run-time. Perhaps some additional configure switch that causes them to be used to build the library and enables the switch by default, or something that causes multilibs to be created to support both variants (enabled and disabled) of the particular flag... -- Alexandre Oliva mailto:oliva@dcc.unicamp.br mailto:oliva@gnu.org mailto:aoliva@acm.org http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil