From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 15 16:51:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7873037B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 922AD43E42 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:51:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0435.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.180] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17fUOE-0007TC-00; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:50:54 -0700 Message-ID: <3D5C3E19.D4EE4ED5@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:49:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Kabaev Cc: Scott_Long@adaptec.com, jesse_gross@yahoo.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GCC 3.2 References: <2C7CBDC6EA58D6119E4A00065B3A24CB046493@btcexc01.btc.adaptec.com> <20020815152703.2f0f23e1.ak03@gte.com> <3D5C21C3.7A848926@mindspring.com> <20020815180723.00a5a83d.ak03@gte.com> <3D5C2F93.BE3BE8B0@mindspring.com> <20020815192849.762e4182.ak03@gte.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexander Kabaev wrote: > > Can *you* absolutely *guarantee* no binary incompatabilities > > between 3.3, as it sits now, in experimental form, and the final > > release of 3.3? If not, then I don't see why are exploding at > > me. > > 3.1-pre to 3.2 upgrade breaks compatibility already. Can you guarantee > that 3.3 will be backwards compatible with 3.2? This is yet another > potential ABI breakage at the time when we'll be _forced_ to upgrade. > How often do you expect GCC developers to break ABI with release > scheduled to happed and the end of the year? Once for every time the code is imported into FreeBSD, plus one. I think Murphy is a GCC committer... 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message