Re: [patch] [java] bump libgcj soname

Andrew Haley <[email protected]> Sat, 2 Jan 2016 16:11:04 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gcc.java.patches,gmane.comp.gcc.patches
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On 02/01/16 15:53, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>> In any case, GCJ_CXX_ABI_VERSION should be changed to not include __GNUC_MINOR__
>>> >> anymore.  Maybe for the gcc-5-branch, set it unconditionally to 3 so that it
>>> >> won't change anymore with future releases from the gcc-5 branch?
>> >
>> > That's safe only if Classpath and libgcj are not changed at all.
> why?

Because of the way that gcj's linkage works.  If you change any of the
vtable/itable indexes your program will crash.

Andrew.