Re: 2.3.26pre2 compile error

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 05 Nov 1999 16:49:59 -0300

>Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> said:
> >>>>> "Horst" == Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:
> Horst> Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> said:
> >> Then you extract that single function from libgcc and put it in the
> >> kernel instead of linking in the entire libgcc.a

> Horst> That is ld(1)'s job.

> Rubbish, the kernel should never get even close to functions provided
> from outside the kernel source tree.

Why not? I understand you can't link the kernel with libc, and most (if not
all) utility libraries simply make no sense in the kernel's job. libgcc is
a library that provides seldom-used parts of the C language as functions,
to which the compiler generates calls as needed.

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