>>>> "Krishnakumar" == Krishnakumar B
<Krishnakumar> writes: 
    Krishnakumar> XEmacs uses C and nobody is going to change the
    Krishnakumar> binary compatibility of C programs. Otherwise a lot
    Krishnakumar> of people will be pissed.
Being Red Hat means never having to say you're sorry!  :-)
Seriously, though, the binutils people did just that with the Hannibal
Lecter ld, and we had problems with global constructors in C (no "++")
under gcc at one point.  (unexec, again; I think pdump would have made
htat irrelevant just as it made Hannibal cry.)
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