Comment 23 for bug 6883

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Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:12:16 +0200
From: <email address hidden> (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
To: Jim Watson <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: (No subject header)

On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 08:46:40AM +1000, Jim Watson wrote:
> We have been shipping the v8 version already but build with v8+ because of
> that unused asm code. So we should ifdef out the v9 code and build with v8
> like _every_ other library is built. I will try and build one next weekend.

that should work.

> For linux sparc only, the v8+/v9 code for linux sparc could be in a separate
> tiny library which is not linked at runtime unless it is actually called. Is
> such a thing possible? How could it be done?

I guess it's possible by loading the library with dlopen and friends.

Thomas.

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