[geeks] GCC 3.2

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, August 15, 2002 at 15:27:59 (-0400), Joshua D Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: [geeks] GCC 3.2
>
> It's out, and it is incompatible with 3.1.1.  What's up with constantly
> breaking binary compatibility?

What are you talking about?  It's only the C++ ABI which changed, and
the former behaviour was apparently buggy:

     * This GCC release is based on the GCC 3.1 sourcebase, and thus has
       all the changes in the GCC 3.1 series. In addition, GCC 3.2 has a
       number of C++ ABI fixes which make its C++ compiler generate
       binary code which is incompatible with the C++ compilers found in
       earlier GCC releases, including GCC 3.1 and GCC 3.1.1.

Keyword:  "fixes"

     * The C++ ABI now conforms to the V3 multi-vendor standard.                

Keyword:  "standard"

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