Eric Botcazou <[email protected]> writes: >> So ... is there a valid reason for this, or is this just an accident >> of history? AFICT, this behavior dates back to 2007 as of r120429 >> (http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/trunk/libgcc/static-object.mk?view=markup&pathr >>ev=120429). > > At least on some platforms, you cannot have more than one libgcc_eh in an > entire link, otherwise you cannot propagate exceptions across modules.
True, but not, as far as I can see, an explanation for why the symbols are hidden. Hiding the symbols doesn't fix the problem of having multiple libgcc_eh on those platforms. Ian
