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Re: gcc 3.2 -> gcc 3.3 ABI change
On Thursday 06 March 2003 17:49, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 22:55, Gerhard Tonn wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am planning to switch to gcc 3.3 as soon as it is released. I have
> > heard rumours that there are ABI changes from gcc 3.2 to gcc 3.3 for C++
> > and/or C. Could someone give me more details or point me to
> > documentation? Is there a configure option to keep the old ABI?
>
> We do not know of any ABI changes between 3.2 and 3.3; the goal is for
> the two compilers to be compatible.
>
> There have been a couple of bug fixes which affect mangled names, but
> those are due to situations where the 3.2 compiler was not a correct C++
> compiler, rather that situations where the ABI was changed "for fun".
Thanks. So this mean that any incompatibilities will come up during build
time, right?
Regards,
Gerhard