Subject: Re: libgcc PIC?
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 04/07/2001 13:50:18
>
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:31:24PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> >
> > The guys on the Xerces-P mailing list suggest that we would be better
> > having a PIC libgcc.a to avoid the kind of problem I had when porting
> > Xerces-P (I have to modify the Perl package)
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> We've been over this a number of times. The only reasonable answer is
> to make a libgcc.so and make damned sure that the interfaces never
> change.
>
This is exactly what gcc-3.0 is aiming for. If we do this (which I think
we should) then lets make sure that if we go there before we go to gcc-3,
then we at least ensure that we aren't incompatible with it.
R.