__register_frame_info problem on Alpha

[Ulrich Drepper]

Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

> I would like to not see this symbol in libc.so.6.1. Or we will have
> again this problems, because current Alpha distributions doesn't have
> this symbol, and our SuSE Linux AXP Beta also. So the first 
> distribution after a new egcs/gcc version will have this symbols, 
> and we have the problems again.

We cannot have this function simply missing.  It is actively used.
And since libgcc is no shared object it is picked up and put in the
shared lib.

If the compiler has such a big change there is no backward
compatibility guaranteed.  Simply let the people use the right
versions.  If somebody updates a compiler independent from the rest of
the distribution s/he must be prepared to do some more work (e.g.,
installing a new libc which you can provide).

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