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Re: GCC 3.0
- To: Theodore dot Papadopoulo at sophia dot inria dot fr
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.0
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 20:47:38 -0700
- Cc: jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com, bkoz at redhat dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com><200010031727.e93HRdF01771@mururoa.inria.fr>
>>>>> "Theodore" == Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr> writes:
Theodore> There is the promise floating around that after 3.0
Theodore> there will be no more intempestive ABI changes and IIRC
Theodore> by this people also mean ABI changes within the C++
Theodore> standard library.
There will still be some changes to the library. However, you should
be able to upgrade the compiler (and not the library) if you want to
preserve backwards compatiblity. If we wait for the library to
completely stabilize, we'll need to wait a year or two at best.
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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