Re: Compiling w/o gcc?

["David A. Greene" <greened at eecs dot umich dot edu>]

Phil Edwards wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:28:17PM -0500, David A. Greene wrote:
>
>> are provided by our vendor.  Because of the conflict, I've disabled
>> building libsupc++ (through an --enable-cxxruntime configure option
>> which defaults to libsupc++, similar to the way --enable-cstdio
>> works).
> 
> 
> I can think of a few situations where other people could use this.
> Can you post the diff, or just send it to me?  I'd like to add this to
> the library configury.

Definitely.  I have to sign the copyright over, etc. first.  I actually
got the thing to build last night but I haven't tried it out yet
(tweaking the compiler a bit first).

I'll try to submit patches in a somewhat sane manner. I'm sure we'll
haggle some over them.  :)

>> I have headers that define the necessary bits (I do, from our vendor),
>> it should be ok to compile libstdc++ with those and link with the
>> vendor's runtime library.
> 
> Exception handling might be very very funky.  Unless your vendor follows
> the same spec (which was designed to be vendor-neutral).

I'll let you know what happens.

-Dave

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