Soliciting help with libstdc++ and exceptions
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Mon Dec 20 20:23:00 GMT 1999
In message < 199912210410.UAA19022@hoser.cygnus.com >you write:
> I just spoke with rth. He claims that everyone has agreed that libgcc
> will become a shared library, but that there's no timetable for this
> work.
Yup. It's going to be painful, but yes, that's where we're heading long
term. The first (of several) steps is to get libgcc out of the GCC
directory and into a target library directory in a manner similar to
libstdc++, libobjc, etc. Once we've untangled libgcc from living in the
gcc subdir we can look into getting its install location moved, API versioning
the library then making it a shared library.
This is going to be a nontrivial amount of work. But ultimately it's
necessary to deal with a variety of losing behaviors we've got right now
in the compiler. There's basically no way to win with libgcc as an archive
library.
jeff
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