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- From: lott@informatik.uni-kl.DE (Christopher Lott AGSE)
- Subject: Re: few questions about gcc 2.3.1 install
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 09:41:36 GMT
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- In article <9211051454.aa05177@chanel.informatik.uni-kl.de> I write:
- > ..some questions..
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- Thanks to botz@orixa.mtholyoke.edu and wwf@doe.carleton.ca I have
- answers to most of my questions. Hope these answers help someone.
-
- >1. Where do the c++ header/include files come from? I seem
-
- They come from the libg++ distribution.
-
- >2. Should I be using gas and/or ld? Benefits?
-
- It's very easy to use the vendor-supplied assembler and loader.
- About the gnu assembler: I still don't know.
- About the gnu loader: In our (Sun4) case, the sun loader does dynamic
- linking, and judging from the notes in the GCC info file, the gnu loader will
- not support this in the foreseeable future. So we'll stick with sun ld.
-
- >3. The GNU C library (glibc-1.05) is intended for people who have no c
- > library available, correct? Are there any benefits for folks like us?
-
- Correct. Glibc has all ANSI-required lib functions and more, and comes with
- a full set of ANSI headers with library function prototypes. We don't *need*
- it because we have the Sun lib, but some of the functions in the GNU libc
- may be better and there's a real advantage to using headers with prototypes.
-
- >4. What is libgcc.a used for?
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- libgcc.a contains a bunch of stuff used in linking objects created by GCC.
- There is more related info in the README.X11 that came with GCC. There
- does not seem to be anything in the Makefile to make a shared libgcc.a.
- I am still not clear about the implications of this for dynamic linking.
-
- chris...
-