Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 20, 2001, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:

> But you should realize that gcc is still used for things like system
> binaries, and they use C. Not C++:

> Things like "mount". Things like "ifconfig". 

A number of what you call system binaries are linked with ncurses.
And, guess what?  ncurses is at least partially coded in C++.  I don't
know whether it makes use of exception handling, but, unless it's
explicitly compiled with -fno-exceptions, it will bring in the EH
support from libgcc into the dependencies of the so-called system
binary.

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