From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey A Law To: "Orn E. Hansen" Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: on egcs-1.0 Date: Sun, 07 Dec 1997 08:32:00 -0000 Message-id: <27172.881512501@hurl.cygnus.com> References: <199712071114.MAA02853@oehansen.pp.se> X-SW-Source: 1997-12/msg00399.html In message < 199712071114.MAA02853@oehansen.pp.se >you write: > > I've read some talks about the release, egcs-1.0. Since I'm reading > that if I apply patches from 1201 to 1.0, it won't be compatible with > the next snapshot. I wonder about binary compatibility of programs > compiled with one version with the other. Will the difference between > the versions affect a program, that is dynamically compiled to one, on > the other (I expect both to have a libstdc++.so.2.8.0 name). I don't think we're introducing any binary incompatabilities at this time. At some point we will, and I hope the C++ folks will warn everyone about it when it happens. jeff