Re: Problematic linking between glibc and shared libgcc

[Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 09:05:00AM +0100, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> I think the only people wishing a shared libgcc are the gcc developer
> itself and nobody else. I don't know any person outside the gcc project
> who likes this, specially people working on large projects and
> distributions hate it.

Besides the fact that exception handling in c++ shared libraries
didn't work at all on any system besides linux?  Which, btw, only
works because glibc pulls routines out of libgcc.a into the libc.so
image.  Which is of course not an option for many systems.

In fact I dare say it's a fair bit cleaner for glibc _not_ to have
to magically know which routines need to be pulled in from libgcc.a,
but instead rely on gcc to know what needs to be shared.


r~