Sriraman Tallam <tmsri...@google.com> writes: > Any reason why gcc should not be made to prefer libgcc_s.so too like g++?
It's controlled by the -shared-libgcc and -static-libgcc options. The -shared-libgcc option is the default for g++ because several years ago a shared libgcc was required to make exception handling work correctly when exceptions were thrown across shared library boundaries. That is no longer true when using GNU ld or gold on a GNU/Linux system, but it is still true on some systems. The -static-libgcc option is the default for gcc because the assumption is that most C programs do not throw exceptions. The -shared-libgcc option is available for those that do. Ian
