a question about Linux target dependence on GNU compiler.

[Marcin Dalecki]

On 2005-01-21, at 07:39, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
> This is an oversimplification.  GCC does have to do a small handful of
> things relating to shared libraries, and a smaller handful of things
> relating to multithreading.

If you consider providing a special addressing mode for the sake of 
thread local storage a
small thing. The another thing, which will bite you when bootstrapping, 
is the usage
of signals for exception handling. The dependencies are there and they 
are quite significant and very subtile.