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Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
- To: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
- From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:11:55 -0800 (PST)
- cc: dewar at gnat dot com, rth at redhat dot com, aoliva at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Geert Bosch wrote:
>
> This restriction is unfortunate though, since it never was the case that
> the gcc library had such state, so it was perfectly fine to have multiple
> copies. I really think we should have moved the exception stuff into a
> separate library.
Is it too late to revisit just this decision, and at leat try to "factor
out" the problem a bit? libgcc is needed by a _lot_ of programs,
especially on some architectures. While exception handling is not
necessarily an issue for many people.
That way, even if no good solution that makes everybody happy is found, at
least we confine the problem case a bit..
Linus