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Re: Generic object attributes patch


On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 08:43:57AM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> I don't belive this patch should go in ASIS. Linker should check 
> attribute conflicts between object files and shared libraries. One
> example is:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2007-06/msg00279.html
> 
> That is a shared library may have different wchar_t attribute
> than object files, which can lead to run-time failure. The current
> scheme won't catch such conflicts.

Sorry, but you're overruled on this issue.  I am happy to look at an
incremental patch on top of Joseph's work which adds support for this
in shared libraries, but I don't see any way in which the situation is
worse than before.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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