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List:       gcc-patches
Subject:    Re: GCC 3.1 Released
From:       Alexandre Oliva <aoliva () redhat ! com>
Date:       2002-05-26 6:21:33
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On May 24, 2002, Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> writes:
>> On May 20, 2002, Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
>>> +<li>The class lookup in the runtime library has been rewritten so that

>>> would that be ok ?

>> Nope.  It's `run-time library'.

> FWIW, I disagree; "runtime" is a de facto industry standard noun for the
> compiler-support library.  It is etymologically related to "run-time", but
> not the same.

I agree with your opinion, but I believe there was a discussion on
this subject before and there was agreement in the GCC docs we were
supposed to do it the way I wrote.

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