Re: gfortran+libcpp: linking objects from c-compiler

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Franke <franke.daniel@gmail.com> writes:

Daniel> Is it acceptable to simply link in the C-frontend object to
Daniel> gfortran (as C is a required language and the .o file will be
Daniel> available)? Do I need to do something else in addition or
Daniel> instead, like renaming or moving functions, pushing them to a
Daniel> library or anything else?

I think the usual rule is that c-* files are either specific to the C
front end, or in some cases, shared by the C family of front ends.

Perhaps this particular file could just be renamed and added to
libbackend.a.

This isn't completely ideal, because c-incpath.c refers to cpp_reader
and some front ends don't actually need libcpp ... but if I read the
Makefile correctly it looks like all the front ends already link to
libcpp, so maybe it isn't a big deal.

Tom