Re: [libstdc++] doc/xml/manual/abi.xml -- fix references to GCC as well as GNU/Linux

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely dot gcc at gmail dot com>]

On 27 November 2011 00:24, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> On the way I spotted an odd reference to GCC. ?Looking at the
> overall document, it occurs to me that
>
> ?- newer versions of GCC are not covered, and
> ?- references to GCC generally are of the form gcc-X.Y instead of GCC X.Y.
>
> Is this something one of you guys (libstdc++) could have a look at?

How's this?  I think I got all the versions and dates correct, but I
must say I find keeping some of this info in the manual to be tedious
and unnecessary.

For an unnecessary example, these days the value of __GLIBCXX__ is the
date a release was made, available from e.g.
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/

To deal with the tedious parts, I changed a few repetitive instances
of 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.3.0 etc. etc. to just 4.x.x which
will be accurate in future and can be changed if it needs to be,
rather than having to keep adding new entries that say the headers for
GCC 4.6.1 are in include/c++/4.6.1 and, guess what, the headers for
GCC 4.6.2 are in include/c++/4.6.2

Would 4.*.* or 4.?.? be better than 4.x.x?

I'm not sure why we need to explicitly state the libgcc soname for
every release when it's always the same.

If noone objects to this approach I'll regenerate the HTML pages and
check this in at some point in the next few days.

If anyone objects, please find a volunteer to keep the tedious version
up to date ;-)

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