Removing -frwitable-strings

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Mon Dec 22 22:25:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 02:11:29PM +0000, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> >If similar ratios hold for the Debian distro (with 10,000 packages),
> >it suggests that 100 will break.  That might be a show-stopper.  In
> >any case, in the past when we have deprecated a feature we've done it
> >over two *major* releases, as in: deprecate in 3.4, remove in 3.5.
> The debian site says <http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/>
>   'The major planned changes for sarge currently include ...
>    and use of GCC 3.2 as the default compiler on architectures that used
>    2.95 so far.'
> 
> which suggests it will be immune from any deprecation in the immediate
> future.

That information is, however, obsolete.  It's actually 3.3.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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