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Re: change of libgcj soname for gcc-3.2?

From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
To: Matthias Klose <doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:07:36 +1200
Subject: Re: change of libgcj soname for gcc-3.2?
References: <15685.46155.911814.463705@gargle.gargle.HOWL>

Matthias Klose wrote:

Now that libgcj has to use the new g++ ABI, should the shared object
name of the libgcj library be changed from 3 to 4?

In general we should change the soname for each major release because simple evolution of classes breaks binary compatibility with the current ABI. In this case we havn't made any changes (in libgcj) which would break binary compatibility, and I'm not sure if the C++ ABI changes between 3.1 and 3.2 will affect us. If binary compatibility has been broken, then the soname should be incremented. If not, it should remain the same.

regards

Bryce.

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