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Re: squangle transition hack
- To: martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de (Martin von Loewis)
- Subject: Re: squangle transition hack
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 98 10:11:28 PST
- Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot com, egcs at cygnus dot com
> > Here's an oddball idea I just came up with to ease the transition to
> > -fsquangle.
>
> I'd rather like squangling to be an additional safeguard for ABI
> changes. Once we feel certain enough about the ABI changes, we should
> activate them together with squangling. Backward-compatibility is then
> a no-no, because the ABI has been changed.
The problem is that many assemblers cannot process the manglings generated
by
map<string,string>
because of limits on symbol lengths, so people are going to need
squangling before the new ABI is ready.