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From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@integrable-solutions.net>
Subject: Re: [i386] Why g++ _always_ link an executable with libm.so?
Date: 05 Jan 2005 23:39:29 +0100
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To: Denis Zaitsev <zzz@anda.ru>
Cc: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu>, Mike Hearn <mike@navi.cx>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, linux-gcc@vger.kernel.org

Denis Zaitsev <zzz@anda.ru> writes:

| On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 01:21:23PM -0500, Andrew Pinski wrote:
| > 
| > On Jan 5, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
| > 
| > > I also find it strange (broken) that a c++ app that doesn't use any 
| > > libm
| > > symbols is linked to it anyway. Why does it matter?
| > 
| > because libstdc++ might pull in libm symbols without the person knowing
| > he did.
| 
| Ok.  But the question in general is not about that.  It is not a
| problem that libm is NEEDED by libstdc++, but why this NEEDED leads to
| the same NEEDED for the app?  Isn't the first depndency enough?

At this point I completely lose track of what your problem is and what
you're complaining about.

-- Gaby