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| Hi netlanders,
| 
| 	I have a few questions regarding libgcc. Is it possible to get
| gcc to compile and link with the standard libc library, rather than libgcc?
| I'm trying to do this on a Sun and a DEC Ultrix machine. I believe that gcc
| 1.39 by default linked with the standard OS libraries. Is this the last
| version to do this?
| 
| Many thanks in advance,
| 
| Andy.
| 
| (Replies should be sent to andyh@dgsi.cimage.com, I'm sending this via
| somebody elses id).

Libgcc.a is just the support routines that the compiler needs.  It
does not replace libc.a (though there is a GNU libc.a which has been
released).  There are three things that are included in libgcc.a:

   1)	Replacement functions for normal primitives, which are
	compiled with the host compiler.  For example, if your machine
	does not support integer division, gcc would convert any
	normal division to a call to __divsi3 (or __divmodsi4).  The
	__divsi3 module in the library would use whatever emulator
	your native compiler uses for the division.

   2)	C++ primitive support functions, which are needed by G++,
	including allocation and static constructor/destructor
	support.

   3)	Long long support to do extended precision integer arithmetic.

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