From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6610 invoked by alias); 5 Jul 2002 21:46:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 6580 invoked from network); 5 Jul 2002 21:46:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dragon.nuxi.com) (66.92.13.169) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 5 Jul 2002 21:46:17 -0000 Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g65LkCoi024550; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 14:46:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g65LkBj4024541; Fri, 5 Jul 2002 14:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 15:12:00 -0000 From: "David O'Brien" To: "H. J. Lu" Cc: Mark Mitchell , Andreas Jaeger , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" , Gerald Pfeifer Subject: Re: C++ binary compatibility between GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.2? Message-ID: <20020705144611.E89951@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <18910000.1025898677@gandalf.codesourcery.com> <20020705142838.C89951@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020705143534.A15158@lucon.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020705143534.A15158@lucon.org>; from hjl@lucon.org on Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 02:35:34PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00244.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 02:35:34PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote: > IMHO, keep the C++ ABI compatibility between 3.1 and 3.1.x, but break > between 3.1.x and 3.2, is one of the worst things anyone can do to gcc. Why? Both Andreas said that the change happening 3.1.1->3.2 will cause problems in upcoming OS releases. You didn't give any reasoning for your position. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)