On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

:  > Various reasons, mostly historic, and this will be fixed in the next major
:  > release of NetBSD (...which will also have a gcc updated to the 2.95.x
:  > series).
:
: Has the shared libgcc thing been discussed on tech-toolchain?  It seems
: like a terrible mistake to me.  libgcc is really part of the compiler.
: We should probably provide a PIC version, but I would say not a shared
: version.

I actually meant to clarify that.  I plan to have libgcc.a and libgcc_pic.a,
the latter of which will be linked into shared objects on "cc -shared".
(Currently, libgcc isn't involved on "cc -shared", which makes use of
libgcc2 functions in dlopen()ed objects complicated.)

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