Proposal for new organization of gcc

[Alexandre Oliva]

Richard Earnshaw writes:

> Perhaps one solution for the multiple sub-libraries problem is for the 
> build/install process to merge any existing libgcc.a with the new 
> functions that are required, creating a single super-library that contains 
> support routines for all the installed compilers.

This doesn't sound right to me.  Changing libraries that are installed
already seems a bad idea to me.  Installing multiple libraries, OTOH,
does not seem a big problem, IMHO.

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Alexandre Oliva
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