Re: GCC 3.0 Release Criteria

[Chip Salzenberg <chip at valinux dot com>]

According to Geoff Keating:
> Chip:
> > We had problems on elf-i386 until I introduced a patch that separated
> > the exception unwinding format from the number of hard registers.  But
> > it's just a happy coincidence that a patch was possible.
> 
> I don't believe that this new scheme will allow people to change the
> libgcc interface at will, any more than the old one would.  You would
> have had a very similar problem.

I concur.  My point, however, is that if the interface did actually
_have_ to change, then wouldn't that require a new soname?  Or is
symbol versioning sophisticated enough to represent functions that are
simply no longer available?
-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K