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Re: Release Plan Updates
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>,Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>,"gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 09:48:21 -0700
- Subject: Re: Release Plan Updates
- References: <mark@codesourcery.com> <200207151453.KAA25284@makai.watson.ibm.com>
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:53:03AM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> > What about the ABI changing libstdc++ patches, like:
> > 2002-07-02 Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com>
> >
> > PR libstdc++/6410
>
> At least libstdc++ can use versioning. The difficulty with the
> C++ ABI change is that there is no equivalent versioning capability for
> the output of the compiler itself, if I understand things correctly.
>
Versioning works with DSOs and executabls. But I don't believe it works
with relocatable object files.
H.J.