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Re: Vtable incompatibility between GCC 3.0/3.2?

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: Stephan Bergmann <stephan dot bergmann at sun dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:54:25 +0200
Subject: Re: Vtable incompatibility between GCC 3.0/3.2?
References: <3F584E1E.2080308@sun.com>

Stephan Bergmann <stephan.bergmann@sun.com> writes:

> Hi all.
>
> I just found out the hard way :)  that there is an incompatibility in
> the vtable layout of GCC 3.0.1 and GCC 3.2.2, see below.  Can anybody
> confirm whether this is a known issue (a deliberate change?), and
> between which two GCC versions the change was introduced?  I did not
> find anything about this in the changes notes.

GCC 3.2 is binary incompatible on the C++ level to earlier releases -
that's one of the reasons why we released it as 3.2.  For details read
this webpage:

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/changes.html



Andreas
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