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Re: Using C++ in GCC is OK
"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Bingfeng Mei wrote:
>
>> Converting to C++ is a major change. Does that justify to have a major
>> release (5.0.0)?
>
> No. It's not in any way user-visible. In principle I agree with what
> Zack said in <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-06/msg00243.html> on version
> numbers; certainly an implementation detail can't justify such a change.
I think we should change the gcc major release to 5 when we change the
libstdc++.so major version number to 7.
Ian