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Re: Always link against static libgcc on hppa-linux
- From: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- To: law at redhat dot com
- Cc: dje at watson dot ibm dot com, mark at codesourcery dot com, rth at redhat dot com, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 16:54:52 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Always link against static libgcc on hppa-linux
> > Yes, the system C library is not the right place. These are really
> > basic arithmetic routines needed by the compiler. I believe HP provided
> > a separate library because it was used across different OS's and with
> > different compilers. You are correct that they have to linked from
> > an archive. I wouldn't even want to think of linking both shared and
> > static C libraries.
> So, why can't hppa-linux work like hppa-hpux in regards to the millicode
> libraries?
>
> hppa-hpux works by having the linker automatically include milli.a anytime
> you link an object.
I am sure it could. In that case, should binutils build and install
the library?
Dave
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