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On Sat, 31 May 2008 00:31:22 +0300 |
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Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote: |
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> On R, 2008-05-30 at 20:20 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 30 May 2008 21:13:32 +0200 |
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> > Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > Talk to the upstream about this, probably getting a satisfying |
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> > > solution isn't that difficult. |
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> > The solution is to use --as-needed in the same way that -ffast-math |
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> > is used: only with applications specifically designed to support it. |
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> You mean everything but paludis? |
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Paludis is fine with as-needed. But hey, don't let reality get in the |
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way of your pathetic attempts at turning everything into Paludis |
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bashing. |
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> Doesn't your grand plan include supporting Prefix and Interix with PE |
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> binaries and so on? |
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I have no particular interest in supporting any platform that can't |
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ship a Standard-compliant C++ environment. |
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> I know projects that need to work around static initialization not |
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> being reliable - they only happen to have done that for other reasons |
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> (such as Windows PE format, iirc) years before --as-needed was |
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> implemented for binutils. |
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> Standards is one thing - reality is something quite different. |
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> The reality is that everything designed to work everywhere is just |
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> mighty happy with --as-needed and lots of benefits to gain from it. |
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And twenty years ago C++ had to work around linkers that only supported |
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eight character symbol names. Reality moves forward, except in |
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situations like these where people try to rice it backwards. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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