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Re: [RFC] Do we care about binary compatibility of code produced by cross-compilers?

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

The more interesting case is systems for which people always use
cross-compilers.  Those systems generally do not use shared libraries,
so compatibility issues are relatively minor.

I don't think that's the case; for example, a lot of embedded Linux systems do use shared libraries and third party apps that depend on those libraries, so compatibility does really matter. But, those systems are small enough that lots of the system is generally cross-compiled.

That said, I think Ian's right; it's better to accept the ABI breakage than to have cross- and native-compilation differ. The latter problem is just too horrid.

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