Re: crt source files

[Tobin Maginnis <ptm at pix dot cs dot olemiss dot edu>]

Hi Brian,

Thanks much for taking the time to look this up for me. Everything I 
read seemed to say that these support routines were part of libc, so I 
got lost wandering around libraries. I was thinking that maybe they were 
in yet another library that I missed.

It makes much more sense to me to have the crt routines in the compiler, 
I should have looked in there.


Brian Dessent wrote:
> I don't know why you'd look in libtool, as that has nothing to do with
> any of the above.  It is simply an optional portability helper for the
> build environment that is typically used in conjunction with autoconf
> and automake in order to write portable build systems.  It is mostly
> just shell scripts and m4 macros, although it does include a small C
> library (libltdl) that abstracts away the differences between the
> various dlopen()-type APIs of many platforms.
>
> Brian

Yeah, you are correct, but I just wanted to show that I had been looking 
under all the rocks. There is so little info about crt on the web. I 
spent the afternoon googling it from various angles and still could find 
anything. (At one point I found a reference to "crtstuff," but could not 
get a lead on that.) My next thought was an exhaustive search of the 
various lib files as I was convinced it was not in gcc.

Thanks again for your assistance,

Tobin Maginnis