Do you need the vtable bug fixed?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < oraeuh2yv9.fsf@lua.lbi.dcc.unicamp.br >you write:
  > AFAIK, we have already introduced other backward incompatibilities in
  > gcc 2.95, so it might be good to fix this problem.  I'd vote for
  > enabling the fixed vtable-thunks by default at least on GNU/Linux, by
  > arranging that -fvtable-thunks enables the fixed code, while providing
  > an option such as -fvtable-thunks=1 that would select the old broken
  > behavior, just in case someone needs it very badly.
  > 
  > We could wait for gcc 3.0 and/or -fnew-abi to enable vtable-thunks on
  > other platforms, if we're not doing it now that they'll work.
I would prefer to see the patch go into the mainline sources (assuming the
C++ maintainers are happy with the patch).  It's far more extensive than we
want to be putting onto the gcc-2.95 branch.

jeff