Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:35:20 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:59:56 -0600 From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Jamie Lokier writes: > Sorry, there's a GCC policy decision against putting it into a > shared library.
Why?
Because this allows proprietary software vendor X to write closed-source compiler backend Y using GCC to provide the front end. If it never becomes a shared library, this sort of thing cannot happen.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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