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Re: --disable-new-gxx-abi
On Jan 24, 2001, Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> While going through GNATS reports I realized that apparently some
> people still bootstrap with/use --disable-new-gxx-abi.
Maybe because GDB still doesn't support the v3 ABI, and people who're
building GCC like that are the kind of people who think debugging code
with a debugger is still the way to go? :-)
> 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?
On the one hand, removing might serve as a push for the GDB folks to
catch up ASAP. OTOH, I'd rather keep it as a fall-back until they do
:-)
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