[cxx-abi-dev] ABI modification for exception propagation

[Mark Mitchell]

Sebastian Redl wrote:
> David Vandevoorde wrote:
>>
>> On May 27, 2008, at 4:39 AM, Sebastian Redl wrote:
>>> This might work. But *only* if all modules link to the support 
>>> library dynamically, of course. If any of them links statically, it 
>>> would keep the old implementation, which would wreak havoc.

That seems a reasonable restriction to me.  Linking an application or 
shared library statically with the C++ run-time library -- and then 
trying to combine that with some other C++ shared library or 
application, also linked with the run-time library -- seems very dodgy 
to me.  After all, there's global data in there.  The cases that concern 
me are object files, or existing shared libraries linked dynamically 
against the C++ run-time library.

I don't think G++ static links the C++ run-time library into a shared 
library if you just do "g++ -shared -o libfoo.so x.cpp", does it?

Thanks,

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