From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21328 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2011 14:40:58 -0000 Received: (qmail 21318 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Jun 2011 14:40:58 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:40:43 +0000 Received: from int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.12]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5MEeKFp031554 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:40:20 -0400 Received: from ns3.rdu.redhat.com (ns3.rdu.redhat.com [10.11.255.199]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p5MEeKql021222; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:40:20 -0400 Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by ns3.rdu.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p5MEeHdB001938; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:40:18 -0400 From: Tom Tromey To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [RFC/ia64] link against libunwind rather than using dlopen References: <1308327042-6327-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:40:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <1308327042-6327-1-git-send-email-brobecker@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:10:42 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-06/txt/msg00300.txt.bz2 >>>>> "Joel" == Joel Brobecker writes: Joel> This is something that I mentioned back in Aug 2005, and which came back Joel> to bite me a little. Basically, on ia64 hosts, we dlopen libunwind rather Joel> that link GDB against it. [...] Joel> What do you guys think? Why do we currently use dlopen? If there is no good reason, or the reason is obsolete, then it is definitely better to link against a library than to dlopen it. Tom