From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31863 invoked by alias); 31 Mar 2003 15:06:01 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-prs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-prs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 31827 invoked by uid 71); 31 Mar 2003 15:06:01 -0000 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:06:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20030331150601.31825.qmail@sources.redhat.com> To: nobody@gcc.gnu.org Cc: gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, From: Erik Schnetter Subject: Re: web/10254: Explain binary compatibility to other vendors' compilers Reply-To: Erik Schnetter X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg02110.txt.bz2 List-Id: The following reply was made to PR web/10254; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Erik Schnetter To: Janis Johnson 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 itself could become outdated when new versions of compilers 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 -- Erik Schnetter Web: http://www.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~schnette/ My email is as private as my paper mail. I therefore support encrypting and signing email messages. Get my PGP key from www.keyserver.net.