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Re: libstdc++ compatibility
- To: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: libstdc++ compatibility
- From: Cristian Gafton <gafton at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:49:46 -0400 (EDT)
- cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, doko at cs dot tu-berlin dot de, egcs at cygnus dot com
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:
> So, in the future if you could build these old libstdc++ releases with a
> new compiler and get something that is compatible for code which linked
> against the old libstdc++ you'd be OK?
I think working on this thing (compiling old libstdc++ code with a new
compiler and keeping binary compatibility) is not worth the time, when it
is so easy to just package up a compatibility thing that will include
binaries compiled with the old compiler, binaries that we know to work,
etc.
> The question in my mind is how can we test this functionality? Just being
> able to build the old library isn't enough, we have to verify to some extent
> that it is compatible with the old one.
IMHO it is not worth it.
Cristian
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