From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24352 invoked by alias); 10 Dec 2008 11:14:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 24328 invoked by uid 48); 10 Dec 2008 11:14:22 -0000 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:14:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20081210111422.24327.qmail@sourceware.org> X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC References: Subject: [Bug libgcj/38396] [4.4 Regression] libgcj_bc for 4.3 and 4.4 are binary incompatible but have the same SONAME In-Reply-To: Reply-To: gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org To: java-prs@gcc.gnu.org From: "jakub at gcc dot gnu dot org" Mailing-List: contact java-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: java-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q4/txt/msg00100.txt.bz2 ------- Comment #6 from jakub at gcc dot gnu dot org 2008-12-10 11:14 ------- libgcj_bc.so is a dummy shared library, which is meant for ld(1) only and provides just a subset of libgcj.so symbols that are for -findirect-dispatch only and aren't changing ABI. libgcj_bc.so.1 is supposed to be a small library with just DT_NEEDED libgcj.so.LATEST and DT_SONAME libgcj_bc.so.1, providing no symbols at all. -findirect-dispatch programs link just against -lgcj_bc, not -lgcj and thus can be used against any libjava version that provides libgcj_bc.so.1. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=38396