[Bug 6358] Returning structs on Linux-i386

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Wed Apr 26 14:06:00 GMT 2000


> I note that when Alex Buell claimed on this list that egcs broke
> binary compatibility for C programs he was generally disbelieved:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/1999-09n/msg00851.html
> 
> It seems to me he was right.

That was an unrelated issue. Alex Buell claimed that upgrading from
egcs to gcc 2.95 broke things; this thread is about upgrading from gcc
2.7 to gcc 2.8/egcs/2.95.

While there may be problems in all places, it does not help to confuse
them.

Regards,
Martin


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