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Re: C++ binary compatibility between GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.2?
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>, "David O'Brien" <obrien at freebsd dot org>
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 15:18:00 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: C++ binary compatibility between GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.2?
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> I urge you as strongly as I can to back port (#define wrap if needed) the
>> changes so that GCC 3.1.1 can be built to be 100% C++ ABI compatible with
>> GCC 3.2. FreeBSD can much more easily accept breakage between 3.1[.0]
>> and 3.1.1, than between 3.1.1 and 3.2[.0] as we are still developing 5.0
>> and can take ABI hits right now.
> The same applies for SuSE and possible also other distributors,
What's the cut-off date where you (Andreas, David,...) would need to
have a release of GCC with such a C++ ABI change?
There are strong arguments not to make this change for 3.1.1 which is
due quite soon, but that doesn't prevent us from making another release
shortly thereafter, for example.
Gerald
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