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Re: Deprecate -fno-honor-std?
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>, Jason Merrill <jason_merrill at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: Deprecate -fno-honor-std?
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:40:26 -0700
- cc: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>, Nathan Sidwell <nathan at codesourcery dot com>, "gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
> Why do it this way instead of in the compiler? So that it will be
> possible to build the old library with the new compiler, to make speed
> comparisons possible (to find out, say, how much do we lose with the new
> headers?
That will not work. There are lots of other reasons the old library
won't work with the new compiler, including that the compiler makes
assumptions about typeinfo, etc., that are incompatible with the old
library. They're relatively tightly coupled. Does that change your
stance?
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