At the risk of sounding stupid - what are you talking about?
gcc -version gives me
2.95.3
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> Moreover, I've had real problems getting server side C code to run, let
> alone C++ code !! with 2.96. In order to get existing code to work (not
> even new code !) for web page rendering I had to go back to Mandrake 2.95.
> I've been dreading Mandrake going 'up' to 2.96. I've had a bug report to
> this effect lodged with Red Hat for some time now, they currently want to
> examine the code !!! well, this is open source ;-)
>
> Owen
>
> On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > During the bombing raid of Sat, 7 Oct 2000 13:26:13 +0200, somebody heard
> >
> > Jan Niehusmann mumble in fear:
> > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:34:35PM +0800, Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > > > hackgcc is only in contribs. Once upon a time, Chmouel put it in for
> > > > main but it was too unstable so we reverted to 2.95.
> > >
> > > While I prefer 2.95, too, I wonder if this has consequences on binary
> > > compatibility. As far as I know, C code is not a problem, but C++ code
> > > may be incompatible between different compiler releases.
> > >
> > > So, a binary released for redhat 7 may not work on mandrake, if it
> > > contains C++ code and is linked against shared C++ libraries.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if this problem really exists or if 2.95 and 2.96 are
> > > compatible in this regard?
> >
> > The official word from the GCC group is...RedHat messed up by
> > using 2.96. There's no binary compatibility with 2.95 *and* there's no
> > binary compatibility with the following releases either...so..RH7's stuff
> > doesn't work for nobody but RH7 (unless it's pure C or Fortran [I'm not
> > sure on this last one...memory is foggy so late at night]) What really
> > worries me about any thoughts of mdk going to 2.96 is the *no forward
> > compatibility" part...please, let's stick to 2.95 and wait for official
> > 3.0 :)
> >
> > BTW, the info comes from
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00003.html which was linked to
> > from /. today/yesterday (friday eve)
> >
> > Arioshi ba
> >
> > Vox, who has scratched RH from his it-may-be-used list at work
> > and home.
> >
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> >
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