mainline "exploding"

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Wed Oct 15 21:34:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> But do we really want to break our runtime, glibc, kernel and probably
> some other programs making funny assumptions about relative placements
> of datastructures, variables and toplevel asm statements not preserved
> by -funit-at-a-time from release to release?  (I would not worry that
> much in longer term - most of instances are relatively easy to fix

Given that GCC 3.4 will break the majority of C++ packages out there
(even if it's their "fault", not ours) and that some distributions and
BSDs will probably skip it for this reason and others, if ever, now'd
be a good time, wouldn't it?

Gerald
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