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

[Lothar M. <mi...@lo...>]

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