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Re: libstdc++-v3 stability?
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>, Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org, jason at redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 15:25:39 -0000
- Subject: Re: libstdc++-v3 stability?
--On Friday, February 08, 2002 12:17 PM -0800 Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM>
wrote:
> Ben writes:
>> I just got asked this question [about ABI stability] by Red Hat,
>> yesterday.
I think Benjamin's plan is the right one: break the library ABI only
between major releases of GCC. Obviously, at some point, we'd like to
go a step further and stop breaking the library ABI, but that won't be
easy for a while. I know symbol versioning should help.
Thanks,
--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
mark@codesourcery.com