Re: egcs-1.1b alpha-dec-osf3.2 internal error in change_address()

[Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs dot mu dot OZ dot AU>]

On 06-Apr-1999, Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 1999, Fergus Henderson wrote:
> > Knowing about it now is not enough for us to avoid end-user exposure,
> > because we ship source code and we don't have control over which versions
> > of gcc our users will use.  We need to make the fix, and then all our users
> > have to upgrade to a new version of Mercury, and all that has to happen
> > before any of our users upgrade to a new version of gcc which disallows
> > this construct.
> 
> I believe from reading the egcs lists that there are several weeks
> before the next release, should this or a similar error-generating
> patch be accepted.

I was hoping for backwards compatibility lasting on the scale of 18 months
to 2 years, rather than a few weeks.  Even longer would be better.
We typically make a major new release only about once a year, and
we can't force our users to upgrade more often than that.

Cheers,
	Fergus.

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