GiNaC porting status

[Richard B. Kreckel]

I once wrote about 64-bit issues and that GiNaC builds fine on Linux/AXP
except for shared libraries, where everything segfaulted immediately.
Somebody guessed we were suffering from some "static initialization order
fiasco".  I haven't looked into that since then---which is good, since I 
just came across this quote from the current GCC caveats list
<http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.95/caveats.html>:

: Exception handling may not work with shared libraries, particularly on
: alphas, hppas, rs6000/powerpc and mips based platforms.  Exception
: handling is known to work on x86 GNU/Linux platforms with shared
: libraries.

So, it's not our problem, is it?  Doesn't sound good, though.

Happy hacking
           -rbk.
-- 
Richard Kreckel
<Richard.Kreckel at Uni-Mainz.DE>
<http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~kreckel/>