Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 01:00:48 +0200 From: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> To: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The upcoming GCC 3.3+ upgrade Message-ID: <3F0C9EA0.4040506@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20030709182405.5ac9f096.ak03@gte.com> References: <20030709170956.621dc901.ak03@gte.com> <20030709182405.5ac9f096.ak03@gte.com>
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Alexander Kabaev wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:09:56 -0400 > Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> wrote: > > >>Unfortunately, importing a newer GCC means that we'll have yet another >>ABI breakage on our hands. > > ^^^^^^^ > > This should read 'API breakage'. GCC 3.3 is supposed to be binary > compatible with 3.2.x. > Please consider ABI compatiblity anouncements between C++ compiler releases a running gag which started at about version 2.95 release time. One thing for sure is that even the changes between GCC 3.2.2 and 3.2.3 broke openoffice for me on Linux at least. I don't even will start to talk about 3.2. and 3.3 on ARM... :-).
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