Bryce McKinlay writes:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>
> >Tom Tromey writes:
> > >
> > > The proposed rule here is actually fairly conservative, perhaps overly
> > > so.
> >
> >I think so. I wonder if the idea of never breaking the ABI is a bit
> >too optimistic. We will try, but ...
> >
> > > Starting with 4.1 I would like to see a much less conservative
> > > rule, namely that we only promise compatibility if you use
> > > -findirect-dispatch.
> >
> >Yes.
>
> I agree, but I also we need to make -findirect-dispatch the default for
> 4.1. Obviously some things need to happen before we can do this.
Source compilation, in particular. The fact that it doesn't work is
certainly my fault, but I'm pretty sure I know how to fix it.