G++ ABI compatibility document

Nathan Sidwell nathan@codesourcery.com
Mon Jun 28 11:09:00 GMT 2004


Shelly Adhikari wrote:
> Hello Guys,
> 
> I am trying to come up with an ABI compatibility document for different 
> versions of GCC - starting from 3.0. Can anyone point out relevant bug 
> reports/items in release notes. I also want to document ABI bugs which 
> were fixed - which would cause incompatibilty among different versions 
> of GCC for corner cases. The document would contain examples of the 
> corner cases as well.
> 
> Made up example : 3.2.0 -> 3.2.1 C++ ABI changed for i686 for function 
> pointers which take complex as arguments.
> 
> Is there a document already available somewhere?
The changelog entries which effect the ABI should be marked [ABI change]
or something close to that (The C++ specific ones definitely)

nathan

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