GCC 3.0 Release Criteria

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Fri Apr 28 14:14:00 GMT 2000


On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 01:26:54PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> So, on ppc, if someone compiles, say, the Linux kernel with
> -msoft-float, then that should automatically switch off the shared
> libgcc?  That would make sense.

Ignoring the fact that the Linux kernel does not currently
link against libgcc at all, and that it uses ld not gcc to
perform the link, yes, but not for the reason of -msoft-float.
Rather that if it were linked with gcc it would use -static.


r~


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