GCC 3+ and ABI

[Tom Browder]

I'm not sure about the impact of the various flavors of ABI from gcc 3.0
onwards.  Statements are made that code compiled with g++X is not
compatible with g++Y, but I seem to be able to link and run successfully
with g++-3.1.1 code linked with g++2.95.1 library code (all on i386
hosts, various RedHat distributions from 7.0 through 7.3.

Am I just lucky and awaiting a big surprise?

Thanks.

Tom Browder