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Re: egcs-1.1 release schedule
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: egcs-1.1 release schedule
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 07:47:24 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: d dot love at dl dot ac dot uk, egcs at cygnus dot com
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> 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.