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Re: Bug 9861 and Java 5 Generics
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: tj at laurenzo dot org
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 19 Aug 2005 19:26:37 -0600
- Subject: Re: Bug 9861 and Java 5 Generics
- References: <5652dcd50508170930187057cd@mail.gmail.com><5652dcd50508171028cf3d4d@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: tromey at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Terry" == Terry Laurenzo <tlaurenzo@gmail.com> writes:
Terry> From my naive experience at this level with GCC, I anticipate a few
Terry> possible problem spots with this change:
Terry> - As mentioned before, binary compatibility suffers
Just wanted to reply to this part -- we've never promised binary
compatibility across "minor" GCC releases (eg 4.0 -> 4.1), only in
point releases (eg 4.0.0 -> 4.0.1). There's really no way we could
given the rate of change of the library; I think some folks think that
even our current policy is too conservative.
Our plan is to offer binary compatibility for those using the BC ABI.
(I was hoping we would do this in 4.1, but that looks unlikely as the
various known BC problems have not yet been addressed.)
Since when using the BC ABI the symbol names aren't important, I am
not concerned about this problem at all.
Tom