From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Buck To: pkoning@xedia.com (Paul Koning) Cc: jbuck@synopsys.com, rth@cygnus.com, egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: need for flag for incompatible-changes Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:44:00 -0000 Message-id: <199801291919.LAA16917@atrus.synopsys.com> References: <9801291911.AA26196@kona.> X-SW-Source: 1998-01/msg01104.html > Joe> I agree. The only reason for some kind of name-munging trick > Joe> would be to support old executables that are available only in > Joe> binary form. That's a job that probably isn't worth doing by > Joe> the egcs team. If a specific customer has a need for it, it > Joe> might be a nice way for some consultant to make a bit of money. > > That sounds reasonable. But for it to be possible, the compiler has > to supply the raw data, i.e., it has to emit the version data into the > object files. But these changes I'm describing have nothing to do with the compiler, really, and everything to do with the library source. And we already have a library version number.