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Re: My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)
- To: hjl at lucon dot org (H . J . Lu)
- Subject: Re: My proposal for the libgcc runtime ABI (ia64 gcc/glibc is broken.)
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at racerx dot synopsys dot com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:43:13 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl (Mark Kettenis), rth at cygnus dot com, law at cygnus dot com, drepper at cygnus dot com, rth at twiddle dot net, libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
> Do you have any suggestions? Don't tell me GCC 3.0 will solve
> everything. Red Hat already uses gcc 2.96 in rawhide. One of the
> reasons I believe is gcc 2.95 and egcs 1.1.2 won't compile glibc 2.2.
> I hope they won't use gcc 2.96 in the public release.
There is no 2.96, and 3.0 won't be released until problems like this are
fixed.
The goal of 3.0 is to freeze the C++ ABI so we don't keep going through
these problems again and again. That means we have to get it right.
Thanks in advance for contributing to the effort to get it right.