On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cyg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 21/02/2010 20:03, Martin Guy wrote: > >> The point about defaults is that the GCC default tends to filter down >> into the default for distributions; > > I'd find it surprising if that was really the way it happens; don't > distributions make deliberate and conscious decisions about binary standards > and things like that? They certainly ought to be doing so, IMO, rather than > just going with whatever-the-compiler-does-when-you-don't-tell-it-what-to-do.
Well, as Martin already pointed out (contradicting his own point): Apparently a lot of distributions *do* change the defaults, see armv4t discussion. Ciao! Steven
