on egcs-1.0

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199712071114.MAA02853@oehansen.pp.se >you write:
  > 
  >   I've read some talks about the release, egcs-1.0.  Since I'm reading 
  > that if I apply patches from 1201 to 1.0, it won't be compatible with
  > the next snapshot.  I wonder about binary compatibility of programs
  > compiled with one version with the other. Will the difference between
  > the versions affect a program, that is dynamically compiled to one, on
  > the other (I expect both to have a libstdc++.so.2.8.0 name).
I don't think we're introducing any binary incompatabilities at this
time.

At some point we will, and I hope the C++ folks will warn everyone
about it when it happens.

jeff