From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 29 04:57:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFCA616A41C; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:57:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524F943D53; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:57:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 41A15521A6; Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:57:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:57:11 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Alfred Perlstein Message-ID: <20050629045711.GA1007@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050628154627.GJ40423@elvis.mu.org> <790a9fff05062809211c27a435@mail.gmail.com> <20050628164703.GK40423@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050628164703.GK40423@elvis.mu.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: kan@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, Scot Hetzel , obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libstdc++ version bump. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 04:57:13 -0000 --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:47:03AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > No, it's not that. It's just that when we decided to upgrade gcc/g++ > in the 5.2.1 era someone didn't bump the library version for > libstdc++. >=20 > It would have been a two second change, but instead it appears that > it was decided that early adopters REALLY needed to be put in their > place for being stupid enough... to be early adopters. No, it wasn't that simple..there were many places where the ABI was broken, and it wasn't feasible to fix them all. Kris --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCwiomWry0BWjoQKURApsBAJ4qnYXWTJf/6qpvMISFDvar7wMkYgCeI8fS bkG2eTnP9VooH7unoR6ibw0= =ic1N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm--