question about arithmetic exceptions

Mon Nov 29 09:51:00 GMT 1999

On Nov 29, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> On Nov 29, 1999, Andrew Haley <aph@pasanda.cygnus.co.uk> wrote:

>> > Sure, that would work. No disagreement. But does the problem justify
>> > such a large reorganization of the compiler?

>> This reorganization is long due. It's probably planned as part of the
>> major rework of gcc building infrastructure. Just don't tell Godmar
>> I'm willing to try to introduce automake and libtool in that process
>> :-) :-)

> If this will add such "break-through" features as the ability to
> add linker scripts to libtool (or is it automake?), I'm all for it.
> ;-)

Absolutely. But the introduction of libtool would allow for the
separate compilation of front-ends, and linking with a back-end shared
library. And automake would give us at least automatic dependency
tracking. But there's a long way to go before this becomes true.
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