Re: Stepping over longjmp presumably broken for glibc

Jim Blandy
2005-12-26T04:06:48Z

On 12/24/05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> I also don't see any significant difference between dependencies on
> intimate details of the runtime library and the details of the ABI,
> like function prologue emitted by GCC. We depend on that in lots of
> places.

Like fork and malloc, the ABI is a published, documented interface. I
think it's all right to depend on that.

The details of the function prologues emitted by GCC are not a public
interface, and are, again, a constant source of troubles.

I think it's okay to depend on the first, and I think it's a shame we
depend on the latter (even as I try to design mechanisms that will
help make that dependence less troublesome).