Ray Hurst wrote: > Is libc built by gcc? Maybe you could elaborate as to what you're *actually* trying to do. By process of deduction, if libc is written in C then it has to be compiled by *some* C compiler. On linux systems, the libc is the GNU C library (glibc), and glibc is written in C, and gcc is the C compiler, thus libc is compiled by gcc. But that is just one specific instance, it is not a general rule. What you seem to be asking is whether libc is part of gcc, and the answer to that is no, it's completely separate. gcc does not contain a C library because gcc is used with too many various platforms to make this maintainable. gcc uses whatever C library comes with the system, and given that gcc has been ported to at least two or three dozen platforms, there is a long list of various C libraries that gcc could potentially be used with. If you were using gcc on e.g. Solaris then the libc would have been written/maintained by Sun and built with Sun's C compiler. Brian
