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[RFC] Do we care about binary compatibility of code produced by cross-compilers?
- From: Paolo Carlini <paolo dot carlini at oracle dot com>
- To: libstdc++ <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:19:52 +0200
- Subject: [RFC] Do we care about binary compatibility of code produced by cross-compilers?
Hi,
I'm asking, because I'm not using cross-compilers much myself and we
never discussed the issue before, as far as I can remember... The issue
arises because I noticed that we have picked to be run only when native
quite a few simple AC_TRY_COMPILE autoconf tests: it would be easy, I
think, to run all those tests unconditionally, but then, in general,
some features would become available to cross-compilers, with potential
binary compatibility issues with old object code. A typical example
would be [GLIBCXX_CHECK_INT64_T]...
Paolo.