Re: libgcc

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost>]

> it is not ever going to be safe to remove these entirely from libc.
> consider the following case:
> 
>       - build a binary on netbsd-5 that depends upon these symbols
> 
>       - run this binary on a netbsd-6 system that only has these
>       symbols in libgcc, and they won't be resolved.
> 
> 
> i'd guess that you need to leave them in libc.so as a weak symbol
> for all eternity, or at least until we bump libc.so.

Thanks for clarification.  I'll check if __weak_alias() works once things
settle down.  (There seem strong oppositions against adding more weak symbols,
though.)

We should consider the static library case too.

Masao

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