Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-10-09 Thread Andrew Reilly
Has any more come of this? I've just started playing with LADSPA (The Linux Audio Developer's Simple Plugin API http://www.ladspa.org) on my FreeBSD 4-STABLE box, and run into a similar problem. This is an entirely C API, and the demonstration applications are all straight C, but some of the plu

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-18 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Khon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, there! > > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Polstra wrote: > > > Here is another possibility: we could call _thread_init() from > > crt1.o. The patch (untested) is below. It calls _thread_init() if > > and only if that symbol

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-17 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Polstra wrote: > Here is another possibility: we could call _thread_init() from > crt1.o. The patch (untested) is below. It calls _thread_init() if > and only if that symbol is defined -- i.e., libc_r is linked in. > What do you think about this solution? >

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-15 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Khon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > `__register_frame_info' should be called from `do_ctors' in > src/lib/csu/common/crtbegin.c to load frame information from .eh_frame > sections before any constructors are executed because try/catch can be > used in construc

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-15 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Polstra wrote: > > there were some problems with pthreads initialization (but David will not > > like the way I did it -- some files in contrib/gcc should be changed). > > this happened because we initialize pthreads from static object > > constructor (which

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-15 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Khon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, John Polstra wrote: > > > Actually I now think we should simply build the crt* files from > > gcc's "crtstuff.c" in the standard way, rather than having our own > > versions. The gcc versions are messy bu

RE: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-15 Thread Janick.Taillandier
Thank you John! Linking the library with -lgcc solved the problem. In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are trying to create a dynamic library of extensions to PHP 4.02. > This library implements a C++ class and has a C interface using the "Extern C" > declaration. >

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-14 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, John Polstra wrote: > > I have made all the necessary patches for this. I believe, David has > > them. > > Actually I now think we should simply build the crt* files from > gcc's "crtstuff.c" in the standard way, rather than having our own > versions. The gcc ve

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-14 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True. But if we just make it link against "-lgcc" then knowledgeable > > users can always add "-static" if they know how to deal with the > > consequences and they need the performance. > > Ahh, but -static implies the

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-14 Thread Nate Williams
> [shared libgcc?] > > If I remember right (and my memory is fuzzy for stuff that far bak) > > there were a couple of issues. > > > > 1) Speed. Shared libraries are slower than static libraries (PIC > >et. al), and the stuff in libgcc tends to be performance centric. > > True. But if we ju

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-14 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Max Khon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > libgcc already has support for DWARF2. the only thing that should be > changed is crtbegin.o/crtend.o. Yes. > I have made all the necessary patches for this. I believe, David has > them. Actually I now think we should simply

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-14 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [shared libgcc?] > If I remember right (and my memory is fuzzy for stuff that far bak) > there were a couple of issues. > > 1) Speed. Shared libraries are slower than static libraries (PIC >et. al), and the stuff in l

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-14 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, John Polstra wrote: > Also, we _desperately_ need to switch away from the setjmp/longjmp > exception implementation and start using the now-standard DWARF2 > implementation. It makes a tremendous performance difference even in > programs that don't use exceptions

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-14 Thread Nate Williams
> > At one point libgcc was shared (FreeBSD 1.*), and it caused way more > > problems that it solved. > > Do you remember any details? I analyzed it pretty thoroughly (I > thought) more than a year ago, and decided the shared library was the > best solution. If I remember right (and my memory i

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-14 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nate Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At one point libgcc was shared (FreeBSD 1.*), and it caused way more > problems that it solved. Do you remember any details? I analyzed it pretty thoroughly (I thought) more than a year ago, and decided the shared librar

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-14 Thread Nate Williams
> > We are trying to create a dynamic library of extensions to PHP 4.02. > > This library implements a C++ class and has a C interface using the "Extern C" > > declaration. > > This library is linked with libstdc++.so.3 . > > > > If the library is called in a C program => no trouble. > > If the l

Re: Trouble with dynamic loading of C++ libs in PHP v4.02 on FreeBSD 4.1

2000-09-13 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are trying to create a dynamic library of extensions to PHP 4.02. > This library implements a C++ class and has a C interface using the "Extern C" > declaration. > This library is linked with libstdc++.so.3 . > > If the library is c