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

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:26:57PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> 
> > Besides, I have not heard a single convincing argument why libgcc.so
> > should be generate as part of gcc.  What do you want to achieve?
> 
> It is likely that gcc maintainers will add functions to libgcc as they
> please, and that the code generated by gcc will rely on these
> functions being inside libgcc. So how should gcc proceed on a system
> where these new functions are not present in the system libgcc?
> 

It has happened:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-07/msg00018.html

That is why we discuss libgcc.so here. 

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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)