Minutes from 17 August meeting

[Christophe de Dinechin]

Jim Dehnert wrote:
>
>  5) Christophe:  Does the proposal at the end of G-4 (open issues page)
>     look like it solves your concerns?    Would anyone else have
>     problems with it as a resolution of the one-time init interface?
>     Note the tradeoff:  It would increase the guard variable size from
>     8 to 40 bytes, but would likely eliminate a bunch of instructions
>     to gather that data for the destructor registration call.  (But it
>     would be a pure loss for no-destructor objects.  So perhaps we
>     should modify it to eliminate the extra data for those, and pass a
>     parameter to indicate that to the release routine?)

I just returned from vacation, and I'm looking into this.

>  7) Christophe:  I think issue F-5 is dead unless you have something
>     specific in mind (mangling ILP32 vs. LP64), and probably even then.
>     Do you.

Kill it. 32 and 64 bit .o files are link-time incompatible on HP-UX now.


>  8) Christophe:  Similarly G-1 on command line options.

Kill this one.


Christophe