GCC 3.0 Release Criteria

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to Richard Henderson:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2000 at 11:53:12AM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> > For example, stack unwinding for exceptions may not work any longer if
> > the compiler's definition of the number of hard regs changes.  The x86
> > target got bit by this a few months ago.  The "fix" was to separate
> > the number of regs saved from the number of hard regs in the processor
> > definition.  That happens to work for the x86, but what if it didn't?
> 
> Then you have ABI changes elsewhere and the code won't interoperate
> anyway.  And at a much more fundamental level than exception handling.

Are you so sure that all such possible incompatibilities can be so
easily handwaved away?  IMO, an inability to come up with a possible
_real_ breakage of libgcc merely bespeaks a failure of imagination.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K