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From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: law@redhat.com
Subject: Re: GCC 3.2
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 19:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020812190157.2508a7d6.bkoz@redhat.com> (raw)

> You could certainly do this too.  The idea behind having it done in
> libstdc++ is that we can verify that sizes/layouts of any externally
> visible classes and structures don't change from one rev of libstdc++ to
> another.  That in conjunction with testing the signatures of every
> externally visible function gives us a much better chance of keeping
> libstdc++ compatible from one rev to the next.

Right. I think this is the preferred way to go, it just requires much
(much much much) more work than simply swapping libstdc++.so's.

It looks like LSB is also interested in some kind of solution like this,
so perhaps there is some synergy there.

-benjamin

             reply	other threads:[~2002-08-12 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-12 19:05 Benjamin Kosnik [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-10-18 17:23 gcc 3.2 Udo Tremel
2002-10-18 18:08 ` Mike Stump
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.33.0208041756450.30248-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk>
2002-08-04 10:24 ` GCC 3.2 Gerald Pfeifer
2002-07-27 22:19 Benjamin Kosnik
2002-07-28  9:40 ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-07-27  1:01 Mark Mitchell
2002-07-27  1:28 ` Joe Buck
2002-07-27  1:30   ` Mark Mitchell
2002-07-27  3:30 ` Zack Weinberg
2002-07-29  4:26   ` Mark Mitchell
2002-07-29  5:00     ` Toon Moene
2002-07-27 16:26 ` Franz Sirl
2002-07-27 18:32   ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-07-30  6:49   ` Jason Merrill
2002-07-31  2:11     ` Jason Merrill
2002-07-31  5:05       ` Jason Merrill
2002-07-31  6:35       ` Neil Booth
2002-07-31  7:14       ` Neil Booth
2002-08-04 10:08         ` Joseph S. Myers
2002-07-31 10:45       ` Mark Mitchell
2002-08-01 14:42         ` Jason Merrill
2002-08-12  8:47   ` Jeff Law
2002-08-12 11:52     ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-08-12 13:14       ` Vladimir Makarov
2002-08-12 13:28       ` Jeff Law
2002-08-12 13:30         ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-08-12 16:42         ` Janis Johnson
2002-08-13  9:46           ` Jeff Law
2002-08-19 11:41             ` Phil Edwards
2002-08-20 21:38               ` Benjamin Kosnik
2002-08-21  4:31                 ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-08-21  9:56                   ` Benjamin Kosnik
2002-08-21 10:24                     ` Kevin B. Hendricks
2002-08-21 11:24                 ` Janis Johnson
2002-08-21 12:02                   ` Phil Edwards
2002-08-21 14:53                     ` Janis Johnson
2002-08-21 20:03                       ` Benjamin Kosnik

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