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Re: Building collect2 for C?
- From: "E. Weddington" <eric at ecentral dot com>
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: ian at wasabisystems dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:05:35 -0700
- Subject: Re: Building collect2 for C?
- References: <4056CA1A.7351.4AF6541@localhost> (eric@ecentral.com)
On 16 Mar 2004 at 12:44, DJ Delorie wrote:
>
> > I can't tell from that discussion whether it's an objection based on
> > libiberty itself, or an objection based on that the proposed patch
> > doesn't work for DJGPP.
>
> It was based on libiberty. DJGPP was just a sample of why. IIRC, the
> patch created an API that wasn't platform-independent, defeating the
> purpose of putting it in libiberty in the first place.
>
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
Eric