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Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria


On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 04:37:39PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 06:55:13PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> > 	When you propose making libgcc a shared library on many systems,
> > do you mean GNU/Linux and other open source operating systems, or are you
> > referring to most commercial operating systems as well?
> 
> I'm referring to most everyone.

..snip..

It really sounds like the whole shared libgcc issue is to fix mis-designs
in Linux's libc.  Yet in order to fix that, the rest of the world is
having to deal with this.  I've *NEVER* had any troubles or issues with
libgcc.a and libstdc++.a/libg++.a linked binaries on SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris
2.3-7, all of FreeBSD, HP-UX 10.20.

The current "--enable-shared" works fine.  Why not make it the default on
Linux and leave the rest of the world defaulting to static libs.

-- 
-- David    (obrien@NUXI.com)

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