Re: RFC: Implementation of ELF sharable sections

2007-01-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:31:46PM -0800, H. J. Lu wrote: > Here is one implementation of ELF sharable section proposal: > > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/generic-abi/browse_thread/thread/bca08f6560f61b0d > > Several people have expressed interests. I post it here for comments. > I used OS

Re: Google group for generic System V Application Binary Interface

2006-09-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:32:45PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote: > I created a Google group to discuss generic ABI: > > http://groups.google.com/group/generic-abi > > It is by membership only. Let me know if you are interested. What's this supposed to be? Reinventing the doomed iBCS2?

Re: "Free as in Freedom"

2006-06-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 05:02:41PM -0700, Alexander Verhaeghe wrote: > Quote Jan-Benedict Glaw "So please shut up now." > > Quite friendly I must say, it's the german way I > suppose of handling things? > > To Jan-Benedict Glaw I WON'T SHUT UP because of "Free > as in Freedom"! That's fine. Jus

Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support

2005-08-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:29:05AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > It sounds like you're interested in MinGW. If you really wanted to > help MinGW users, you'd fix MinGW so that it supported these the same > way that DJGPP and Cygwin do, for *all* MinGW applications, not just > gcc. I'd have to have t

Re: 4.2 Project: "@file" support

2005-08-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:50:32PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > > I've created a new 4.2 Project page for "response files", which is > what Microsoft calls files that contain command-line options. > Conventionally, if you pass "@file" as an argument to a program, the > file is read, and the conte

Re: Compiling GCC with g++: a report

2005-05-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:14:42PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote: > > I'm not sure what the above may imply for your ongoing discussion, tough... > > Well, if I were running the show, the 'clock' would only start running > when it was consensus among the libstdc++ developers that the soname > would n

Re: libgcc_s.so.1 exception handling behaviour depending on glibc version

2005-05-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:33:35PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2005 10:05:34 -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > > No hacks needed; you just have to embrace reality. > > The reality is that 95% of computers run Windows which is very good at > supporting developers who distribute binaries in th

Re: libgcc_s.so.1 exception handling behaviour depending on glibc version

2005-05-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 09:27:50PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote: > The biggest problem really is that this sort of thing is a lot of effort > for your average evenings-and-weekends open source hacker who wants to > distribute Linux binaries to his end users. Setting up and maintaining a > dedicated buil