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SubjectRe: 2.3.26pre2 compile error

[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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