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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 03:59:39PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> Jeffrey> Right. But these same kinds of problems happen on
> Jeffrey> systems where we do not control libc -- so we don't have
> Jeffrey> the options of forcing them into libc.so to avoid this
> Jeffrey> problem.
>
> Does Zack's comment suggest, however, that on GNU/Linux (and other
> systems using glibc) that we should *not* use a shared libgcc, but
> rather depend on the one in libc?
I could make a case either way.
Not all of libgcc is forced into libc, just the frame handling
routines. If we do continue to depend on that, perhaps we should put
the entire library in.
zw