My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)

[Martin v. Loewis]

> glibc shouldn't provide any libgcc functions. However, glibc will
> use some libgcc functions. That means libgcc.so has to be available
> when libc.so is loaded. I only proprose to let glibc decide where to
> put libgcc.so. gcc only provides a libgcc.a compiled with -fPIC and
> maybe a script like build-libgcc.so which will build libgcc.so from
> libgcc.a. Glibc will build libgcc.so from libgcc.a in gcc and install
> it at an appropriate place.

Does that mean users have to rebuilt glibc whenever they install a new
version of gcc?

Martin