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Re: egcs-1.1 release schedule


> 
> 
>   In message <rzqiultp90m.fsf@djlvig.dl.ac.uk>you write:
>   > >>>>> "Jeff" == Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:
>   > 
>   >  Jeff> 	  You can't do this with STACK_BOUNDARY since that says we
>   >  Jeff> 	  will 100% always have a properly aligned stack, 
>   > 
>   > I guess we've just been lucky with the previous g77.  (BTW, perhaps
>   > the documentation of the alignment macros could be reviewed?)  I
>   > thought there was an agreed patch available to do things right, too,
>   > which presumably I misunderstod about.
> I went back and reviewed Marc's patch.  It had ABI issues to contend
> with.  It was my mistake to say it didn't have ABI isssues a few months
> ago.
> 

I believe Marc's patch doesn't change ABI by default. But you can
turn on some optimizations by hand which will change ABI. But if
the user is warned, it shouldn't be a problem. Besides, he/she
recompile libraries with the new ABI if Linux/xxxxBSD is used.


H.J.


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