Targets using implicit extern "C"

E. Weddington ericw@evcohs.com
Wed May 11 00:59:00 GMT 2005


Joe Buck wrote:

>Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
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>>>It would be hard to make that completely reliable for embedded systems
>>>development, where the header files may or not be available in any
>>>standard place at the time that gcc is configured.
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>>>
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>On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:30:43PM -0600, E. Weddington wrote:
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>>E.g. the AVR target, which normally uses avr-libc:
>><http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/avr-libc/>
>>but only builds avr-libc after gcc is built.
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>Right, but you don't need the answer to the question until it's time to
>build libstdc++, and you can't build libstdc++ without a C library.
>So can't the test be deferred until that point?
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Seems reasonable, sure.

Eric



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