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From: jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Dan Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: g++ vs. cfront 2.0 in the Real World
Message-ID: <10629@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 89 16:47:17 GMT
References: <799@redsox.bsw.com> <6590190@hplsla.HP.COM> <1561@bacchus.dec.com>
Reply-To: jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Dan Christensen)
Organization: Computer Graphics Lab, University of Waterloo
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In article <1561@bacchus.dec.com> bothner@decwrl.dec.com (Per Bothner) writes:
>Stallman has verified this till (I assume) he is sick of it:
>Copyleft does not (and cannot) restrict the use of gcc (or emacs) as *tools*.
>That is, if you compile your program with gcc (or g++), it is still
>your program, as long as you only use "essential" run-time support,
>such as crt0, 32-bit multiplication on 16-bit machines, etc.
>However, if you link in libg++, Copyleft applies, and you must
>distrubute source to your entire application. The same will
>apply to the (unreleased) libgcc.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I'm new to g++.

When do you need to link in libg++?  I am developing an application
and am investigating using C++ as the language but am worried
that if I use g++ I will have to distribute my source code.

Thanks.

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Dan Christensen, Computer Graphics Lab,	         jdchrist@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont.	         jdchrist@watcgl.waterloo.edu