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On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:22:00 -0700
> Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> > > Didn't the GNU people say they had to change it to be more ABI compliant
> > > with the 'standard'?
> >
> > I will believe that when they upgrade their FORTRAN compiler
> > to be more compliant with 'the standard'.
> >
> > Some standards are not worth complying with; I still have yet
> > to see anyone tell me exactly what the practical benefit of
> > doing this is.
>
> When X (X > 1) compilers comply to the same ABI standard, I can mix the
> results of those compilers (if I see a benefit to do so).
>
> As we have icc in the ports collection and the base system is compiled
> with gcc and I want to be able to link to gcc compiled libs with icc, I
> appreciate the effort of the involved parties to try to comply to a
> common ABI standard.
>

That might be so over in your reality, but over in this really there is
tonns of paisn due to the changes and changing libstdc++.so major. Lets
not get into "promises" about ABI stability

> Bye,
> Alexander.
>
> --
>                I believe the technical term is "Oops!"
>
> http://www.Leidinger.net                       Alexander @ Leidinger.net
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