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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 1998 13:55:45 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm), jdp@polstra.com, root@mantar.slip.netcom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: netscape 4.0 fails after make world 
Message-ID:  <199803110555.NAA17854@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Mar 1998 19:06:21 GMT." <199803101906.MAA06001@usr01.primenet.com> 

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Terry Lambert wrote:
> > > > GCC must change its name mangling between ELF and a.out after all. :-(
> > > 
> > > Implementation namespace.
> > > 
> > > This has to do with the "_" prefix.  The semantics dictated by ELF
> > > are different than those dictated by a.out.
> > 
> > Actually, no, it's because gcc was accidently compiled with
> > NO_DOLLAR_IN_LABEL, which came in via svr4.h.  So, __vt$8stdiobuf got
> > remapped to __vt.8stdiobuf - the gas that we use doesn't need this
> > hand-holding (unlike the svr4 assembler), so it was fixed 2(?) days ago.
> > Just recompile cc*, and libstdc++ and libg++ and this will be the way it
> > was.
> 
> Ah.  I thought you were trying to Link an a.out binary dynamically
> against an ELF shared library.  My mistake...

Funny you should mention that...  There are some interesting things in the 
pipeline in that department.. :-) No, I'm not saying any more than that..

Cheers,
-Peter



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