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

[Joern Rennecke]

> Doing things outside gcc has the advantage of not delaying the
> release.  The worst case is that the new release cannot be used on a
> certain platform but that's it.  And this would be the fault of the
> people writing the libgcc.so for that arch/OS.

I think this is a non-issue.  We can control the generation of libgcc.so
by a target macro, so only those targets that are ready to have it
(and where it makes sense to have it to start with) will have it.