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RE: --disable-new-gxx-abi
- To: 'Gerald Pfeifer' <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Subject: RE: --disable-new-gxx-abi
- From: David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:08:06 -0000
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gerald Pfeifer [mailto:pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at]
>Sent: 24 January 2001 14:51
>While going through GNATS reports I realized that apparently some
>people still bootstrap with/use --disable-new-gxx-abi.
>
>As far as I understood, we won't support the old API in GCC 3.0, so
>perhaps now is the time to get rid of it? (And if it's just so that
>all people really test the current one.)
I've been meaning to ask for some time precisely what this feature
disables. Just name mangling, or is there more to it than that? In any
case, my wish would be for the feature to remain available, no matter how
heavily deprecated / unsupported / only available by patching the source
rather than as a configure option.
DaveK
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