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Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch

To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
Subject: Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Date: 21 Feb 2001 18:25:14 +0100
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at transmeta dot com>,Bo Thorsen <bo at sonofthor dot dk>, Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>,dewar at gnat dot com, rth at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10102201115530.31099-100000@penguin.transmeta.com><ork86kdt8v.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>

Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:

|> On Feb 20, 2001, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
|> 
|> > But you should realize that gcc is still used for things like system
|> > binaries, and they use C. Not C++:
|> 
|> > Things like "mount". Things like "ifconfig". 
|> 
|> A number of what you call system binaries are linked with ncurses.
|> And, guess what?  ncurses is at least partially coded in C++.

Nothing from libncurses itself is coded in C++.  The C++ interface is
a completely separate add-on.

Andreas.

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References:
- Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
  - From: Linus Torvalds
- Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
  - From: Alexandre Oliva

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