Re: [Mingw-users] MinGW gcc 3.x, 4.x and exceptions

[David Daeschler <daveregs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Good morning all,

I'm going to inject my two cents here.  I would much rather have shared
libgcc/libstdc++ than have the MINGW compiler be more complicated and
prone to corner case bugs.  I never really understood the big deal.  The
people who want to write one off programs without dependence on "3rd
party DLLs" (for example a single .exe distribution) won't need to be
throwing exceptions across exe/dll boundaries anyhow because they won't
be including any .dlls.  Maybe all we would need is a switch that says
"no dynamic runtime and you deal with the consequences".

As long as there is a GPL exception for the runtime, I have no problem
with it.  I would rather have a modern, stable compiler that is less
complex to maintain.

- Dave

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 01:59 +0200, Lothar May wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> John E. / TDM wrote:
> > To me it is far more desirable to include the overhead of libgcc and 
> > libstdc++ in every module than to have to deal with the distribution and 
> > versioning issues inherent in using libgcc and libstdc++ as DLLs; this 
> > is because by the time a program comes to rely on external modules, the 
> > additional code size of these two libraries is negligible as compared to 
> > the entire program size.
> 
> In my opinion, using a dynamic C/C++ runtime is a huge improvement. When 
> using multiple C++ DLLs which are linked against shared libstdc++, those 
> are all considerably smaller, and link a lot faster. If a program has 
> lots of modules, statically linking anything which is used by multiple 
> modules is usually a bad idea and might cause problems.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Lothar
> 
> 
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