Re: A libgcc patch for gcc 3.0

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>]

   Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:26:35 -0800
   From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>

   On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 11:01:14AM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote:
   > "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
   > 
   > > I am not sure if gcc 3.0 will do the right thing for glibc. Here is
   > > a patch. Basiscally, we treat libgcc_s.so as a system library. gcc
   > > will use libgcc_s.so only if it is available from system or gcc is
   > > configured with
   > > 
   > > --enable-shared=libgcc/--enable-shared=gcc
   > > 
   > > Any comments?
   > 
   > 1. If you're "not sure if gcc 3.0 will do the right thing for glibc"
   >    it would be a good idea to:
   > 
   >    1. Check if it really doesn't.
   > 
   >    2. Identify what's going wrong.  And try to explain it to the rest
   >       of us.
   > 
   >    3. Try to come up with a fix.
   > 
   >    Jumping straight to step 3 really isn't a good idea.

   I have done 1 and 2.

And would you care to share your knowledge with the rest of us?

Mark