On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote: > That sounds like a possibility. But my understand was that *usually* the > mismatched stdc library versions aren't a problem, but that in some rare > cases it is.
I think if apple shipped with a gnu stdc, everything would be just fine because gnu provides backwards binary compatibility. I don't think this is necessarily the case when mixing gnu stdc with apple's stdc, which puts us into undefined-behavior-land. So, while the problem might rarely manifest, I think it's definitely a problem. (And especially a problem for scientific libs that scientists trust to have very well defined behavior) _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
