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Re: ABI/compatibility details? (egcs -> gcc 2.95 -> future?)
- To: Mike Stump <mrs at wrs dot com>
- Subject: Re: ABI/compatibility details? (egcs -> gcc 2.95 -> future?)
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 20:48:44 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, landauer at apple dot com
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Mike Stump wrote:
> Since we have now proven that we can't maintain compatibility, I think
> it would be wise to turn on -fnew-abi features that are near stable,
> so that we can finish testing and stabilizing them for the next major
> release. For example -fsquangle is an excellent example.
Actually this was my very first thought after reading Martin's reply! ;-)
Not wanting to break binary compatibility has always been the killer
argument against enabling -fnew-abi or -fsquangle, even though the latter,
for example, would have made the life of a lot of folks much easier.
Concerning squangling, I have been testing this on regular base on
sparc-sun-solaris2.6
i386-unknown-freebsdelf3.x
and sometimes also
alphaev56-dec-osf4.0d
i386-pc-solaris2.7
without any problems during the last 12 months.
Gerald
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