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Subject: Re: gnu/58099: g++ -fhuge-objects on ix86 coredumps upon use of
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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 09:36, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:16:10AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 04:43, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >=20
> > > Which binary packages, the package for the gcc ports?  Nothing specia=
l
> > > is done for package builds, beyond what is in the port.  Can you be
> > > specific about why you think this is a port error?
> >=20
> > Because every c++ library in the distribution needs to be built with al=
l
> > permutations of ABI breaking options. The libstdc++ library is just the
> > first one. If you don't want to face doing this, then having
> > -fhuge-objects always on is a reasonable workaround.
>=20
> Won't this break compatibility with all existing users of C++
> packages?  That would be a deal-breaker.

The workaround would. Doing the 'right thing', building a libstdc++ with
-fhuge-objects, and editing the spec file to use it IFF -fhuge-objects
was passed to g++ won't break anything.

Rob
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GPG key available at: <http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt>.

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