>>>>> "geoffrey" == Geoffrey Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi
geoffrey> Code produced for C++ is like this:
geoffrey> egcs is not compatible with gcc 2.95.x. gcc 2.95.x is not compile with
geoffrey> gcc 2.96. gcc 2.96 is not compatible with gcc 3.0.
geoffrey> End of story. We have distributed egcs and gcc 2.95 before, we had
geoffrey> incompatibility, why are you worrying so much?
And any other steps in between are also incompatible. But this is
only c++ code, and there is _way_ more c code that c++ code in any
distribution that I can think of. Here the problem appears only with
closed source (i.e. you need some linker/soname gymnastics to get
netscape built with gcc-X run in a machine with gcc-Y, Y!=X.) But you
can reduce that problems with libstdc*compat (that all
distributions that I have looked at have solved). Your problem only
appears if you want to use a closed library compiled with an older
compiler with your new compiler, that will fails :(
Later, Juan.
--
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they
are different -- Larry McVoy
