[libstdc++] Port-specific symbol exports, porting notes
Gerald Pfeifer
pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at
Sun Jul 6 21:12:00 GMT 2003
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> But we need to support binutils 2.13 - and disabling symbol versioning
> for older binutils is not an option!
And _at least_ binutils 2.12.1!
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Phil Edwards wrote:
> My opinion is that /by the time 3.4 is released/, binutils 2.14 will be
> far more widespread than it is now. The kind of people who install 3.4
> the day it's released will already have installed 2.14. The kind of
> people who stay with 3.3 for years to come will also stay with 2.1[23]
> for years to come, and symvers will continues to work for them as well.
Negative. I am bootstrapping GCC mainline on a daily base on FreeBSD
4.8-RELEASE and FreeBSD 4-STABLE production and SuSE 8.2 systems here,
which are using binutils 2.12.1 and 2.13, and will probably keep them
for quite some time.
> So I submit that nearly all the folks mixing development-stage compilers
> with older released binutils will be us.
...and thousands of users of the BSD ports collections, and many users
who need to use non-released GCC for various reasons, and so on.
If we can work with vendor tools (as, ld) we really should also support
older versions of the GNU tools.
Gerald
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