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

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 11:07:44AM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 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". 

Things like <unbelievably critical program> should probably be linked
statically.  Or if not, then the maintainers should select which libraries to
link statically and which to link dynamically.  I would hope that mount(1)
and company get more attention to their makefiles than, say, Yet Another
Desk Calculator Written By A Freshman Student.  (Those seem to keep popping
up on my networks.  I don't know why.)


> A number of what you call system binaries are linked with ncurses.
> And, guess what?  ncurses is at least partially coded in C++.  I don't
> know whether it makes use of exception handling, but, unless it's
> explicitly compiled with -fno-exceptions, it will bring in the EH
> support from libgcc into the dependencies of the so-called system
> binary.

Not only that, but I've been using ncurses-5.2 to test the C++ library.
Occasionally something happens that breaks ncurses; usually somebody else
catches it quickly.  All the more reason to get a working C++ compiler
out there.


Phil

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