Re: RFC: Support for FreeBSD/amd64

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-10-28 14:09, "Richard M. Stallman" <address@hidden> wrote:
>     > Yes, and they both are almost certainly needed.  The reason is that
>     > some functions in libgcc.a call functions from libc.a, and some libc.a
>     > functions need functions from libgcc.a.  Since most versions of ld are
>     > one-pass linkers, you need to mention -lgcc twice, or else risk
>     > getting unresolved externals.
> 
> Someone should add a comment above that line
> to explain this.

Something like this perhaps?

http://people.freebsd.org/~keramida/emacs/22/freebsd-amd64+libgcc.patch

I took the liberty of adding a comment to the __FreeBSD__ #ifdef for the
location of the 64-bit libraries.