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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ich@frank-schmitt.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Support for FreeBSD/amd64
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:07:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u8xwcskjt.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EVYf4-0006vu-P1@fencepost.gnu.org> (rms@gnu.org)

> From: "Richard M. Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:09:06 -0400
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>     > Yes, and they both are almost certainly needed.  The reason is that
>     > some functions in libgcc.a call functions from libc.a, and some libc.a
>     > functions need functions from libgcc.a.  Since most versions of ld are
>     > one-pass linkers, you need to mention -lgcc twice, or else risk
>     > getting unresolved externals.
> 
> Someone should add a comment above that line
> to explain this.

I don't object to such a comment, of course, but I thought this was
common knowledge.  E.g., anyone who has ever invoked GCC with the -v
option to build a C program already knows that GCC mentions -lgcc
twice on the linker's command line.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-26 23:52 RFC: Support for FreeBSD/amd64 Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-27  3:58 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27  6:50 ` Frank Schmitt
2005-10-27 11:50   ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-27 19:08   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-27 20:13     ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-27 20:56     ` Frank Schmitt
2005-10-28 18:09       ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-28 22:01         ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-29  5:12           ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-29 14:47             ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-30  3:36               ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-29 10:07         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-10-29 18:35           ` Giorgos Keramidas
2005-10-29 20:33           ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-27 12:27 ` Dryice Liu
2005-10-27 14:57   ` Giorgos Keramidas

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