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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