Re: HEADS UP: gcc update work in progress

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:44:16PM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost said:
> > i've started updating our gcc to 4.5.3
> 
> What is the plan wrt exception handling? Are you switching to
> the dl_iterate_phdr based scheme or will we stick with
> __register_frame_info?

The former. Contrary to Linux, we can and should do it for static
binaries as well. I'd say leave the old libstdc++ and GCC 4.1 as is for
now and switch for the new libstdc++ (with different major number).

Joerg