segmentation fault on GiNaC-1.2.0 using MinGW on Win XP

[Richard B. Kreckel]

On 14 Apr 2004, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> "Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel at ginac.de> writes:
[...]
> | I still do hope that the C++ Committee does see the light some lucky day
> | and realize that they can do a great favor to the language and its
> | community by simply demanding that if dependencies form a DAG, then that
> | DAG shall be established by the linker.  AIX seems to do it.  Patches for
> | GNU ld to that effect have been suggested.  It's so obviously the correct
> | thing to do!  Rather, they say nothing.  The GNU folks then say the order
> | is determined by the link line.  Hahaha!  Very funny.  I have 855 modules
> | in CLN.  Under no circumstances am I going to manually arrange that link
> | line.  This problem is definitely the most irritating issue of C++.  It is
> | also the issue most insistently dodged by the Standard Committee.
>
>
>   I think that the committee level, the question is what can we do
> about this without falling into describing a particular implementation.
>
>
>   At the "GNU folks" level, I think the issue is different :-)
> You said, patches have been suggested for GNU ld, do you have some
> reference handy?

Bruno, may I ask if you still have that old patch for GNU ld mentioned in
the cln/modules.h comment lying around somewhere?  If so, it would be
interesting to have a look at it and see if it is still useful.

Luck
   -richy.
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Richard B. Kreckel
<http://www.ginac.de/~kreckel/>