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Re: C++ binary compatibility between GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.2?
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 19:09:11 -0700
- Subject: Re: C++ binary compatibility between GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.2?
--On Friday, July 05, 2002 06:12:28 PM -0400 David Edelsohn
<dje@watson.ibm.com> wrote:
I thought that after GCC 3.1 was released, C++ bugs were suppose
to be fixed in a backward-compatible way not requiring incompatible
changes in the ABI, even if that required extra work.
When that's possible, that might make sense.
In the cases we've run into so far, it hasn't been possible, regardless
of how much work you put into it.
--
Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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