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Re: libsupc++
- To: "green at cygnus dot com" <green at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: libsupc++
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- Date: 31 Jan 2001 14:12:08 +0000
- Cc: "'Richard Henderson'" <rth at redhat dot com>, "'gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- References: <01C06C04.51387F60.green@redhat.com>
>>>>> "Anthony" == Anthony Green <green@redhat.com> writes:
> On Friday, December 22, 2000 10:27 AM, Richard Henderson [SMTP:rth@redhat.com]
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:07:57PM -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
>> > It's an unfortunate choice of names.
>>
>> Why, what would you have called it?
> libeh? Perhaps there's no good alternative. It looks like a library for
> supporting C++, but my impression was that it really isn't C++ specific.
libsupc++ is the necessary library code for a freestanding implementation
of C++. It is very C++ specific. The generic EH library code remains in
libgcc.
Jason