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Re: on egcs-1.0
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: on egcs-1.0
- From: Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 00:06:04 +0100
- CC: oe dot hansen at oehansen dot pp dot se, egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <27172.881512501@hurl.cygnus.com>
> I don't think we're introducing any binary incompatabilities at this
> time.
>
> At some point we will, and I hope the C++ folks will warn everyone
> about it when it happens.
The original wording using 'incompatible' was somewhat confusing.
What it (probably?) meant is: The next snapshot will include a patch
relative to 1201, not to 1.0. So if you apply the 1.0 patch now, you
will not be able to patch to the next snapshot, unless you reconstruct
the 1201 sources first.
Regards,
Martin