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Re: libtool does not add stdc++ when linking on Linux


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: Re: libtool does not add stdc++ when linking on Linux
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:40:00 -0500 (CDT)

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Christian Thalinger wrote:

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 12:48 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Right, but ../../src/vm/libvm.la should depend on it, as it does on
OpenSolaris, since it contains a C++ object file.

Why does that follow?  Just because an object is compiled with the C++
compiler does not mean that it uses any features from libstdc++.

You are actually right, it does not use any libstdc++ features
explicitly, but:

In my experience, the only portable way to deal with C++ dependencies from a C program is to link the C program using the C++ compiler.

Besides the library dependency issues, the C++ code may require different runtime support such as different/extra initialization to support RTTI and C++ exceptions. Without the extra initialization, bad things may happen if a C++ exception is thrown. For example, the program may crash rather than the exception being properly caught by an exception handler or even invoking the standard unhandled exception terminal function. C++ exceptions are now an inherent part of the language.

If the C++ code uses any templates, the C++ linker may be necessary to make sense of them, particularly if template instantiations are stored in a repository.

Bob
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