Re: committed: merge with libada-branch

[Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>]

On Feb 10, 2004, at 12:41, Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> > There is brief documentation of how to specify a set of multilibs in
> > the GCC internals manual, but I don't know of any documentation
> > anywhere of how to write a multilib-enabled language runtime Makefile.
> >
> > The set of multilibs is determined entirely by the target
> > architecture.  Building a cross compiler to just about any
> > embedded target (mips-elf for example) will involve multilibs.
>
> Are multilib used to build shared and non shared libraries?


Yes they are used for both shared and static libraries.  The main use of
multilib libraries are for systems like x86_64, ppc64, and sparc64 which
have both 32 bit and a 64 bit compiler in one so you can supply -m32 and
get a working 32bit compiler.


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski