Re: Commercial apps written with GCC?

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From: Preston F. Crow
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 19:03

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In <3k7bfe$obf@news.umbc.edu> propf@zeus.towson.edu (Gregory Propf) writes:

>Yes, but of course it would link with their libraries since it uses
>their standard functions (i.e. even 'printf' is part of a GNU library
>with GCC).

*Bzzzzzzzt*

printf(), and all the other standard functions are in /usr/lib/libc.a.
Installing gcc does absolutely nothing to this file.

Now you could replace your standard libc.a with glibc, but that's a
separate issue.

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