Re: Name Mangling changed from egcs 1.1.2 to gcc 2.95

["Martin v. Loewis" <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

> I guess egcs 1.1.1 did the name-mangling compression before resolving
> typedefs, thus missing this case.

Ok, I could reproduce that behaviour here. Taking typedefs into
account for mangling was clearly wrong, so gcc 2.95 is right in this
respect.

> Unfortunately, the act of fixing that little bug has resulted in
> what basically amounts to a new name-mangling strategy.  So you can
> no longer link together code compiled with gcc 2.95 with code
> compiled with egcs 1.1.2.  It would be good if a
> backwards-compatibility flag could be added.

That won't happen. Please have a look at

http://egcs.cygnus.com/gcc-2.95/caveats.html

'Officially', there is no compatibility between 1.1.x and 2.95,
whatsoever (and there is a number of other changes that broke
compatibility).

So you either have to recompile everything for gcc 2.95, continue to
use egcs 1.1, or find some other (local) solution.

Regards,
Martin