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Re: please be aware of the versioning on the C++ compiler
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- To: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 16:33:41 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: please be aware of the versioning on the C++ compiler
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> In the future, may I suggest that the following happen:
>
> 1) you add "C++ ABI change" to the ChangeLog entry.
> 2) you add notes to cp/NEWS for ABI breaks
> 3) you add a testsuite entry
> 4) you update __GXX_ABI_VERSION
> 5) you run 'make check-abi' in libstdc++-v3 in addition to make-check
> 6) if 5 breaks update the libstdc++.so
Somewhere (around 2) also gcc-3.x/changes.html should be updated).
(For GCC 3.1/3.2 I manually copied relevant parts from cp/NEWS and marked
it up manually but in the long term we should find a better approach.)
Gerald
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