Newbie - GCC runtime question

[Crouching Tiger]

OK. Thanks for your help Tim.


I understood that gcc doesn't include much of the library function
support required by the C standards, but it does include some C
standard library support, doesn't it?

If it does, what collection of utility functions that support a
program while it is running (working with the operating system) does
gcc support?

Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks once again Tim.

Cheers.



On 9/4/06, Tim Prince <timothyprince@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Crouching Tiger wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > A naive question: :)
> >
> > What is the GCC runtime and what does the GCC runtime include (i'm
> > asking for examples also)?
> >
> This question could be interpreted various ways. gcc includes a run-time
> library (libgcc2) with run-time support for functions not easily
> expressed with in-line code, such as a large number of relatively
> awkward casts.  Also, there are support libraries for various languages,
> such as the C++ STL (libstdc++), Fortran run-time (libgfortran), OpenMP
> support (libgomp) et al.
> gcc doesn't include much of the library function support required by
> nearly every application, and by the C standards.  There are both GNU
> (glibc) and non-GNU implementations of those libraries, with an
> established tradition for which are chosen by gcc, according to target.
>