GCC 3.0

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Tue Oct 3 20:47:00 GMT 2000


>>>>> "Theodore" == Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr> writes:

    Theodore> There is the promise floating around that after 3.0
    Theodore> there will be no more intempestive ABI changes and IIRC
    Theodore> by this people also mean ABI changes within the C++
    Theodore> standard library.

There will still be some changes to the library.  However, you should
be able to upgrade the compiler (and not the library) if you want to
preserve backwards compatiblity.  If we wait for the library to
completely stabilize, we'll need to wait a year or two at best.

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