From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Buck To: jhpb@sarto.gaithersburg.md.us (Joseph H. Buehler) Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: need for flag for incompatible-changes Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 09:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <199801281711.JAA25083@atrus.synopsys.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg01047.html > Keep in mind when you make abi changes in the compiler, that some > things are distributed as binary-only (e.g. Motif) and thus *cannot* > be recompiled by end users. Motif is undoubtedly C code, so perhaps > less of a problem, but there are undoubtedly a bunch of binary-only > C++ libraries out there too. Up until now, we've made no effort to keep binary-only C++ libraries running. We will have to break them again, at least one more time, to implement namespaces. We may want to attempt to figure out all the things we may break and try to do them only once; if we don't want a permanent fork that will have to be coordinated with gcc2.