__emutls_get_address link problem

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/25/10 11:37 , Christian Maeder wrote:
> Christian Maeder schrieb:
>> Simon Marlow schrieb:
>>> On 23/08/2010 17:45, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>>>> On 8/23/10 11:57 , Christian Maeder wrote:
>>>>> However, when I try to compile the simplest source with on older
>>>>> gcc-3.4.4 I get the link error below, but only for the threaded rts!
>>>>>
>>>>> With ghc-6.12.1 and gcc-4.x.y (x<  3) I did not have such a problem when
>>>>> switching to a machine that only has gcc-3.4.4.
>>>> You got lucky; mixing GCC major versions like that is not expected (much
>>>> less guaranteed) to work in general.  GCC evidently changed the way it
>>>> implements some thread support routines between gcc3 and gcc4.
> 
> Why should it not be possible to create object files (like also dynamic
> libs) with (very) different compilers?

All bets are off when it comes to compiler support routines.  Anyone who's
tried to link code generated by gcc with code generated by SunPro/Forte C on
Solaris knows this one from experience.  Those of us old enough to remember
early versions of gcc do too; it took a while for the support to become
stable, then libg++/libstdc++ went through the same thing later, then the
gcc/egcs split (aka the gcc2/gcc3 split).  Red Hat's cowboy 2.95.3 release
also caused a lot of grief.  gcc3 to gcc4 is the exception, not the rule.

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brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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