Subject: Re: why is there no libgcc.so
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/08/2001 09:52:41
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:39:09AM -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> 
> Actually, you should be able to force linking the existing libgcc.a against
> the .so created for Sablot:  just add -lgcc to the link line.
> 
> You will probably get a few linker warnings because libgcc is not compiled
> PIC, but the code should otherwise function.

That will fail badly on some platforms (e.g. PowerPC).