On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 16:30 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > I was trying to compile a binary on Fedora 7 > so that is was portable to as many systems as possible, > but was getting a "Floating point exception" at startup, > on older systems? your subject: is misguided; this isn't BACKWARDS compatibility; backwards compatibility is "older software runs on new releases".. what you want is the other way around. > > I.E. compile the following on Fedora 7: > > #include <stdio.h> > int main(void) > { > printf ("Hello world\n"); > return 0; > } > > The resultant binary will throw a floating point exception > at startup on ubuntu breezy and debian sarge at least > (but is Ok on ubuntu feisty). you need an LD option --hash-style=sysv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list