GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2008-03-06)

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Richard Guenther wrote:

> >  Sounds good to me; certainly as soon as 4.3.0 gets out and gets wider
> >  testing, people will find things.  In the past we only used the 4th digit
> >  for paper-bag issues (like failure to bootstrap on a major platform or
> >  broken release tarballs).
> 
> Heh, we even did a quick 3.2 release after fixing ABI issues in 3.1.

Which I consider to be a mistake (the idea was that 3.2 would conform to 
the C++ ABI, but further bugs were found later).  The next deliberate C++ 
ABI change can hopefully happen whenever we find it necessary to bump the 
libstdc++ soname.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com