libstdc++ libtool lossage

[Richard Henderson]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:51:32PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> But then, perhaps -shared-libgcc is a do-nothing if no shared libgcc
> is built already?

It is.

> Still, it gives a way to enable the shared libgcc without requiring
> one to test which version of gcc is in use.  Well, at least assuming
> you've got some version of gcc that accepts -fexceptions.

Which isn't really that old, so I don't think you're buying much.

And, as Jakub pointed out, -fexceptions is used by C to generate
unwind information so that C++ can throw through it.  It is not 
necessary to link with shared libgcc just for this.


r~