Re: web/10254: Explain binary compatibility to other vendors' compilers

[Erik Schnetter <schnetter@uni-tuebingen.de>]

The following reply was made to PR web/10254; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Erik Schnetter <schnetter@uni-tuebingen.de>
To: Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com>
Cc: gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: web/10254: Explain binary compatibility to other vendors' compilers
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 16:57:46 +0200

 On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:38:13PM -0800, Janis Johnson wrote:
 > Information about binary compatibility between GCC and other
 > compilers would be useful, but a page keeping track of such
 > information could get messy very quickly.  The information
 > itself could become outdated when new versions of compilers
 > are released, and links like this are difficult to keep up
 > to date.
 
 I see.
 
 > It would be appropriate, though, for us to describe known
 > incompatibilities or ABI corner cases, along with examples
 > that demonstrate how real code is affected.  I've been
 > planning to add more of such examples as test cases in
 > testsuite/g++.dg/compat/abi (feel free to nag me about
 > that).  Those tests (once they exist!) could be mentioned
 > in the Binary Compatibility section of the GCC Manual.
 
 Test cases are a good idea.
 
 > Erik, does that sound reasonable?
 
 Yes, of course.
 
 Thank you,
 -erik
 
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