Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:36:34 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: kan@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libstdc++ version bump. Message-ID: <20050629133634.GN40423@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20050629045711.GA1007@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050628154627.GJ40423@elvis.mu.org> <790a9fff05062809211c27a435@mail.gmail.com> <20050628164703.GK40423@elvis.mu.org> <20050629045711.GA1007@xor.obsecurity.org>
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* Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> [050628 21:57] wrote: > 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++. > > > > 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. "So instead of screwing a subset of the users we screwed them all." I'm not really happy that mindset but if it's working for us(*) then I guess we should keep doing it. (*) not me, as I always seem to get hosed by these things. -- - Alfred Perlstein - email: bright@mu.org cell: 408-480-4684
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