A completely different approach to EH runtime

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:04:05PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Put all the language-independent EH support in their own library, call
> it libeh.a.  This is a static library.  __muldi3 etc continue to live
> in libgcc.a.  Shared objects are linked with libgcc.a but _not_
> libeh.a.

Sounds good to me.  In fact FreeBSD has had certain issues with libgcc
and shared objects that this would have helped.
 
> This should just work on every platform which does not use GNU libc.

Yes.

> On platforms which do, there is an additional complication: glibc
> presently contains its own copy of the eh routines, dragged in from
> libgcc.a.

I've never understood why glibc has to have such carnal knowledge of the
compiler....

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)