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Re: Compiling w/o gcc?
- To: "David A. Greene" <greened at eecs dot umich dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Compiling w/o gcc?
- From: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 16:14:28 -0400
- Cc: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200104010052.f310q5g07921@waller.constant.com> <3AC88D1C.8050705@eecs.umich.edu>
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 09:30:52AM -0500, David A. Greene wrote:
>
> I guess I'm getting hung up on the fact that this is a _library_.
> Why is it so difficult to compile just the library bits?
Most libraries are "user space" libraries. They can assume the full
functionality of the features of the language, including the runtime
library of that language.
This library, on the other hand, is part of the GNU C++ implementation
itself. There are lots of fiddly issues to get correct, some of which
I'm sure we have yet to discover.
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