C++ binary compatibility between GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.2?

[Joern Rennecke]

Bernard Dautrevaux wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joern Rennecke [mailto:joern.rennecke@superh.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 10:47 PM
> > To: Gabriel Dos Reis; gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> > Cc: Jakub@superh.com; Jelinek@superh.com; Mark Mitchell;
> > obrien@freebsd.org
> > Subject: Re: C++ binary compatibility between GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.2?
> >
> >
> > > Thanks for the clarifications.  So all that needs is to make an
> > > exception to our earlier commitment that minor releases won't
> > > introduce ABI incompatibility; or make an exception to our scheduled
> > > development plan.  I don't have any strong opinion.  But if we were
> >
> Then what was for now named 3.2 byt GCC *developpers* (a much smaller
> community than gcc *users*) may have to be renamed 3.3 if there is
> incompatibilities with this 3.2 release (or major change in features), but
> may just become 3.2.1 otherwise.

But then you'd have a massive amount of new. possibly destabilizing code
in 3.2.1 versus 3.2.  Users generally expect a x.y.1 release to me more
stable than the preceding x.y.0 release.

And, on the other hand, 3.2 would be rather a disappointment regarding
new features and ports.
	
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