Re: [gentoo-dev] New Glibc which officially support gcc-3

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 23:52, Sebastian Werner wrote:
> Am Mon, 2002-01-21 um 22.45 schrieb Lars Scheele Jensen:
> > How to handle backward binary compatibility to: C++, STL ?
> > The C++ ABI has change and it will change in 3.1.x
> >
>
> I don't really know about this. OK 3.1.x seems not a so big change like
> now towards 3.0.x. Mhh, my latest try to build kde-3 with gcc-3.0.3
> works in most parts ok. There are application with buggy code. But i
> don't think it's a problem on the compiler-side anymore. Gcc-3 is more
> standard compilant and i think thats the way we must go.
>
> The world is moving around and we can't stop it ;-)

Sure, but sometimes you have to sacrifice cutting edge for
mass stability.  Most users would not want to wait weeks 
until kde or gnome, etc is fixed against gcc-3.0.3.  And
many will not want to hassle with fixing build errors.

>
> Greetings
>
> Sebastian
>
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 22:13, Sebastian Werner wrote:
> > > Hey
> > >
> > > I think the next days we could try to move gentoo to the next compiler
> > > generation. Now, while glibc officially supports the new compiler suite
> > > i think we doesn't need to flag it with the dirty
> > > --disable-santity-checks. Yeeaaah
> > >
> > > Sebastian
> > >
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