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Re: Shell wrappers and GCC - FYA
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Shell wrappers and GCC - FYA
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zackw at Stanford dot EDU>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2001 20:25:50 -0700
- Cc: Bruce Korb <bkorb at veritas dot com>, Bruce Korb <bkorb at pacbell dot net>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 07:45:44PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:-
>
> > There are thre problems I see. One is, it's not clear how to handle
> > language-specific drivers, unless you want to have libgccdriver.so,
> > libg++driver.so, etc. etc. which strikes me as horrid. Another is
>
> It sounds like we could merge the 3 drivers here - and still have 3
> separate binaries for GNU standards compliance.
I must be missing something - how would you do this?
> You missed another that would become important - clean up the many
> memory leaks in the driver. I hope that would be part of the rewrite
> anyway.
I had assumed that would get taken care of in the driver write. It is
of course silly to propose a persistent library module with memory
leaks.
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