breaking compatibility

[Nathan Myers]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:16:52PM -0800, Loren Osborn wrote:
> I hate to write in and complain, because I know that gcc is a great piece of
> software, and know how much it has plowed the way for other open-sourced
> projects, but I've run into some persisting issues with gcc (as it is in
> CVS) that are really starting to annoy me.
> ...  most of the reason why our code doesn't
> compile with the current CVS gcc has to do with the folding of
> libstdc++v3 that's begun to be folded into the mainstream over
> the last few months.
> 
> It frustrates me greatly that either I'm forced to use old, broken
> versions of gcc, or port our code-base to gcc once again.

You have a third choice: the old, buggy libstdc++-v2 is (IINM) still there.

Nathan Myers
ncm at cantrip dot org