> 
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:31:24PM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> > 
> > The guys on the Xerces-P mailing list suggest that we would be better
> > having a PIC libgcc.a to avoid the kind of problem I had when porting
> > Xerces-P (I have to modify the Perl package)
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> We've been over this a number of times.  The only reasonable answer is
> to make a libgcc.so and make damned sure that the interfaces never
> change.
> 

This is exactly what gcc-3.0 is aiming for.  If we do this (which I think 
we should) then lets make sure that if we go there before we go to gcc-3, 
then we at least ensure that we aren't incompatible with it.

R.