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Re: add .cc files to libgcc.a

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: Perry Smith <pedzsan at gmail dot com>
Cc: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>, gcc <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 10:29:23 -0700
Subject: Re: add .cc files to libgcc.a
References: <FE2943E3-6940-4AE3-B5FA-9ECF819BD152@gmail.com> <CAGWvnykciT1qQbRr2KDfEb1drWnPMGG8hm5d5jWi6qqSxaJxFA@mail.gmail.com> <387EE7A4-DF07-4A01-9254-60CF2E79259A@gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm sure they could be rewritten in C.  GNUs libc choose to do them in C++ probably because C++ just gives a nicer way to do things.

In the GNU libc __cxa_atexit and __cxa_finalize are written in C, not C++.

We should not add C++ code to libgcc.  We could add it to libsupc++.

Ian

References:
- add .cc files to libgcc.a
  - From: Perry Smith
- Re: add .cc files to libgcc.a
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- Re: add .cc files to libgcc.a
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