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Re: ld issues
- From: "Robin Garner" <robin dot garner at iname dot com>
- To: "Andrew Haley" <aph at redhat dot com>,"Jeff Sturm" <jsturm at one-point dot com>
- Cc: "Steve Pribyl" <steve at netfuel dot com>,"gcj mail list" <java at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:57:25 -0500
- Subject: Re: ld issues
From: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
>
> Indeed. It fascinates me how often this question comes up -- why do
> people want to invoke the linker directly instead of having gcj do the
> job, when the latter obviously works and the former doesn't?
>
In my case it's because the java modules gcj is compiling are part of another language's runtime. It has its own requirements when it comes to linking.
But more generally, what if every language wanted to force you to link with its own compiler ? This would make multi-language development impossible. For myself, I would find a restriction that you needed to link using the compiler that built the main module acceptable; having to use gcj to link just because I have some library modules written in java doesn't seem entirely fair.
Regards,
Robin
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