GCC 3.0 Release Criteria

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 20000426135643B.mitchell@codesourcery.com >you write:
  > >>>>> "Geoff" == Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> writes:
  > 
  >     Geoff> I would be interested in knowing what benefits are hoped to
  >     Geoff> flow from this change.
  > 
  > Me, too.  I'm acting here on input from Jeff and RTH, who have
  > indicated that this is the Right Thing.
  > 
  > Richard, would you mind summarizing the problems with the current
  > scheme and how you making libgcc.so a shared library will help?  Also,
  > what negative consequences are likely?
Actually Alexandre  & Jason can probably handle this better I can.  Basically
it avoids most of the insane problems we have with libgcc symbols ending up
in user applications/libraries and conflicting with other copies that are
in other shared libraries.

There's a *long* discussion of this issue in the archives dealing with problems
on alpha-osf and I believe another one with ppc-aix.


jeff