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Re: RFC on PR77828 and internal units
- From: Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu>
- To: Jerry DeLisle <jvdelisle at charter dot net>
- Cc: gfortran <fortran at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:40:01 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC on PR77828 and internal units
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- Reply-to: kargl at uw dot edu
On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 01:29:25PM -0700, Jerry DeLisle wrote:
> Please see https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77828
>
> The patch I posted clearly breaks ABI in the sense that it renames
> st_read and st_write to avoid calling a wrong library with the code
> compiled with Trunk (7.0)
>
> Personally I am OK with this because it is a solid line in the sand.
>
There are a number of PR's that require breaking the
library's ABI. We've always punted the decision down the
road, but at some point the ABI is going to get broken.
I thought that a meta-bug report tracked the ABI breakage
PR's. A quick scan of bugzilla titles did not have one
jump out at me.
Personally, I think we should bump the library's major
version number and start to introduce the long delayed
PR's.
Of course, I have little to no time to actuall fix
anything. :)
--
Steve