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Re: [PATCH] libgcc variant
I think it's OK to distribute this kind of support library with GCC. I
don't even mind making it part of libgcc, if we're confident in the
stability of the ABI. In that case, we already have structure for
stuffing extra processor-specific routines into libgcc.
If we don't want to put it in libgcc, then I think we should put it at
the top level. We want to move libgcc to the top level anyhow; the last
thing we want to do is introduce more libraries within gcc/ itself.
RTH indicated that it would be nice to assume this library is there so
that we don't have to autoconf for it. That's fine -- we just say that
it's a requirement that you have this library around when you build GCC.
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