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Re: Plug-ins on Windows
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:48 PM, David Brown <david@westcontrol.com> wrote:
> I was perhaps over-generalising - obviously anything that depends on target
> specifics will be dependent on the target. ?And I'd also expect some things
> to change in the plugin interface between major gcc versions - while it
> would be nice to have binary compatibility for plugins between different
> major versions of the compiler, I fully understand it if some things break.
> ?The main requirement is that it must be possible to re-compile the plugin
> for different gcc versions, but it would be very useful if re-compilation
> were not necessary, if such support is not too costly.
Re-compiling the same plugin sources for different gcc versions is
not supported. Of course you might be lucky for minor version
changes such as 4.5.3 to 4.5.4.
Richard.