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Re: [HELP] GCC 4.1 branch Ada status on powerpc-darwin?
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, "Peter O'Gorman" <peter at pogma dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, Arnaud Charlet <charlet at adacore dot com>, Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>, Chris Douty <Chris_Douty at ampex dot com>, Laurent GUERBY <laurent at guerby dot net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:15:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: [HELP] GCC 4.1 branch Ada status on powerpc-darwin?
- References: <1137484110.20435.1003.camel@pc.site> <200601232251.26922.ebotcazou@adacore.com> <956B133C-F432-4D5A-A21E-865FE6061A15@apple.com>
> Passing nothing is equivalent to telling the compiler "I want my
> program to run on all versions since 10.1", which means you can't use
> EH at all.
OK, but passing nothing used to just work until 4.0 and works on any other
platform. That's what I personally find the most disturbing.
> I would rather you defaulted to -shared-libgcc, to avoid creating
> programs that don't run on future versions of Mac OS. Do you really
> care about being able to create programs that run on 10.2?
I'm not sure we'd be willing to trade minimal dependencies for "future binary
compatibility", but I see your point. I'll let Arnaud decide.
Thanks again.
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Eric Botcazou