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Re: Switching the default for -fabi-version
- From: law at redhat dot com
- To: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, david dot moore at intel dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:41:12 -0600
- Subject: Re: Switching the default for -fabi-version
- Reply-to: law at redhat dot com
In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310221445510.16615-100000@wotan.suse.de>, Michael Ma
tz writes:
>So, definitely yes. I doubt though, that it matters, because we also link
>against libstdc++ (of course), and hence the new compiler anyway means
>full recompilation and lost of backward compatibility. I hope that
>somewhen this all becomes better, like with glibc ;-)
All true. However, does KDE have a plug-in architecture? If so, then it's
quite possible, even likely based on your data that revving up the ABI
will mean that you also have to rebuild all the plug-ins if you rebuild
KDE.
Similarly for Mozilla (which worries me even more).
jeff