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From: Andrea Bocci <fwyzard@inwind.it>
To: "kong sun" <akong_zjucs@yahoo.com.cn>
Cc: gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what does this word mean?
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.2.20021028140431.00b6cfc8@popmail.libero.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021028124201.32351.qmail@web15107.mail.bjs.yahoo.com>

At 20.42 28/10/2002 +0800, =?gb2312?q?kong=20sun?= wrote:
>hi,
>   I am reading some document about gcc.And the word
>"libiberty" appear many times in those archives.I can
>not find this word in dictionaries.What does the word
>"libiberty" mean?
>   thanks.
>                                           swankong

libiberty is a common library used by some GNU development tools (gcc, gdb, 
binutils, ...), to supply common procedure and overcome system library 
problems (I think).
I guess the name comes from the way gcc is invoked to link it it, ie. gcc 
... -liberty :-)

fwyzard


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-28 13:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-28  9:32 kong sun
2002-10-28 10:15 ` Andrea Bocci [this message]
2002-10-31 12:45 ` Mike Stump

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