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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
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