Bernd Schmidt, release manager for GCC 2.95.3

[Franz Sirl]

On Thursday 30 November 2000 18:37, Bernd Schmidt wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Joe Buck wrote:
> > In addition to the criteria that Bernd lists, we want to avoid any patch
> > that breaks C++ binary compatibility with gcc-2.95.2.  We already have
> > three different incompatible C++ compilers in common use on GNU/Linux:
> > egcs-1.1.2, gcc-2.95.2, and what I'll call gcc-2.96RH.  We want to avoid
> > creating one more; for one think, picking the shared library numbering
> > would be very tricky for an intermediate bug-fix version.
> >
> > Unfortunately, that makes it very hard to fix the vtable-thunks problem.
>
> I'll need to rely on people with more knowledge of the C++ frontend for
> this issue.  Martin, Jason, as far as I know the vtable-thunks patch has
> been applied to the 2.95 branch already.  Is there any chance whatsoever
> that it breaks binary compatibility?  If so, it will have to be reverted.

The vtable patch is there, but it is either buggy or triggers a bug elsewhere 
in the compiler. Try to run the C++ testsuite with -O2 as an additional flag 
and watch it break. That's why I reverted to v1 vtables in my patchset (as 
did Debian when they tried v2 vtables).

BTW, Bernd, I guess you should bump the date in gcc/version.h after you 
checked in most/all of the patches.

Franz.