Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:23:47 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux emulation status Message-ID: <20031211232347.C116F2A8F1@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20031211154129.GA58813@dragon.nuxi.com>
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"David O'Brien" wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:40:48PM -0500, Owen Becker wrote: > > More specifically, has anyone gotten mozilla/firebird going? > > Unfortunately, the Mozilla developers have depended on having carnal > knowledge of GCC's internal C++ ABI and exception mechanism. I don't > understand why, but this makes it rather hard to port to new > architectures. Just as a BTW; I have a horrible suspicion that something is broken in the dynamic linker. I've found one program (xpdf) that fails when dynamically linked, but works when statically linked. I do not yet understand what is going on but I'm pretty sure the runtime binding is corrupting function call state. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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