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Re: [PATCH 64bit] Fix ONDEE for 64bit


On Mar  5 03:14, Yaakov wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2013 09:49:50 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Mar  5 00:09, Yaakov wrote:
> > > I don't know if the version changes are a matter of policy or just how
> > > it has happened, but in any case that's not the current versioning
> > > scheme, nor is it how libtool libraries are usually versioned (and no,
> > > libgnat is not built with libtool).  As long as this continues, the
> > > following would work instead if you want to automate it:
> > 
> > Where exactly is the problem?  I thought *we* can define how the DLL is
> > called.  Is anything outside of the GCC toolchain expecting a specific
> > DLL name and relying on it? 
> 
> No, we don't control the DLL name; libjava/Makefile.am and
> libjava/libtool-version determine the soname of libgcj based on
> standard libtool naming and versioning practices.  Since GCC 3.2
> (libgcj.so.3), there has been a consistent +1 version bump for each
> major.minor release, hence the x+6 for the 4.x series
> (for 4.8: cyggcj-14.dll, libgcj.so.14, etc.).
> 
> The define in cygwin*.h or mingw32.h is used in
> libgcc/config/i386/cygming-crtbegin.c:__gcc_register_frame(), so it's
> the define that needs to match the build system, not the other way
> around.

Sigh, ok.  I'll use your definition.  What do we do when gcc 5.0
is getting close?


Corinna

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