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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria
On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:26:54PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 12:17:53 -0700
> > From: Richard Henderson <rth@cygnus.com>
>
> > On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:47:23AM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > > The interaction with multilibs may be more interesting. Perhaps we
> > > will want to build libgcc-nof.so?
> >
> > I would expect not. Multilibs are primarily an embedded thing,
> > and they practically never use shared libraries.
>
> So, on ppc, if someone compiles, say, the Linux kernel with
> -msoft-float, then that should automatically switch off the shared
> libgcc? That would make sense.
I think the concept of multilibs should apply to hosted environments as well as
embedded. After all consider PowerPC Linux -- the embedded distributions need
to compile everything with -msoft-float because the 860/803/etc. chips don't
have fp hardware. Also consider math libs, etc. that want to take advantage of
special instructions. Finally there are embedded systems that use shared
libraries.
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