[geeks] GCC 3.2

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:42:24PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> [ 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.
> 

I seem to remeber that a previous release, 2.99 perhaps (it was, among
other things, in red hat) that broke a lot of things.

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Joshua D. Boyd