[geeks] GCC 3.2

[Dave McGuire]

On Thursday, August 15, 2002, at 03:54 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
>>> It's out, and it is incompatible with 3.1.1.  What's up with constantly
>>> breaking binary compatibility?
>>
>>   Uh-oh.  What did they break?  On what platform?
>>
>
> To quote the changes files:
>    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.
>
> So, it seems like all platforms.  But it might be possible that turning
> off ABI compatibility on both 3.2 and 3.1.1 will allw the code to play
> nicely with each other.

   It seems to me that this means libraries compiled with 3.1.1 won't be 
useful with object files compiled with 3.2, is that correct?

       -Dave

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