[HELP] GCC 4.1 branch Ada status on powerpc-darwin?

Eric Botcazou ebotcazou@adacore.com
Mon Jan 23 22:51:00 GMT 2006


> Passing nothing is equivalent to telling the compiler "I want my
> program to run on all versions since 10.1", which means you can't use
> EH at all.

OK, but passing nothing used to just work until 4.0 and works on any other 
platform.  That's what I personally find the most disturbing.

> I would rather you defaulted to -shared-libgcc, to avoid creating
> programs that don't run on future versions of Mac OS.  Do you really
> care about being able to create programs that run on 10.2?

I'm not sure we'd be willing to trade minimal dependencies for "future binary 
compatibility", but I see your point.  I'll let Arnaud decide.

Thanks again.

-- 
Eric Botcazou



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