question about arithmetic exceptions

Sat Nov 27 16:30:00 GMT 1999

Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> writes:
> As an aside, I find the way libgcc.a is built rather strange.
> Does anybody know the motivation and/or history behind this highly 
> unusual setup?

You mean the libgcc1 vs libgcc2 thing?
The ideas is that you would compile libgcc1 with the "vendor compiler",
which would the generate the needed low-level code for things
with division of longs (which on many systems is/was a library call).
You compile libgcc2 with gcc.
Then you put the two pieces together ...
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