From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
Cc: rearnsha@arm.com
Subject: Re: Proposal for new organization of gcc 
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 04:12:00 -0000
Message-id: <199801211933.TAA05814@sun52.NIS.cambridge>
References: <orafcpeiq5.fsf@amazonas.dcc.unicamp.br>
X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg00794.html

> Richard Earnshaw writes:
> 
> > Perhaps one solution for the multiple sub-libraries problem is for the 
> > build/install process to merge any existing libgcc.a with the new 
> > functions that are required, creating a single super-library that contains 
> > support routines for all the installed compilers.
> 
> This doesn't sound right to me.  Changing libraries that are installed
> already seems a bad idea to me.  Installing multiple libraries, OTOH,
> does not seem a big problem, IMHO.
> 

But then the driver program has to know (or to be able to determine) what 
all libraries are called, or the user has to explicitly add them.  Merging 
the knowledge of multiple language support libraries into the driver 
problem is probably harder than merging the libraries.

You pays your money and you makes your choice.