Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Samuelson <> | Date | Sat, 6 Nov 1999 00:26:17 -0600 (CST) | Subject | Re: 2.3.26pre2 compile error |
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[Peter Samuelson] > > One such way is to generate assembler code from its parse trees, > > another is through linking to libgcc.a. Thus libgcc.a is in one > > sense not really a library so much as just part of the compiler. [...] > > Why do this work by hand? [Alexander Viro] > Because in 99% of cases you don't _want_ those operations. Part of > standard or not, gcc on x86 makes them _slow_.
So basically we use the absence of libgcc.a as a trap to find compiler constructs we consider undesirable. Fair enough, works for me.
-- Peter Samuelson <sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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