On Tue, 13 Mar 2012, Stephan Kulow wrote:
On 13.03.2012 11:47, Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
On 13 March 2012 09:22, Stephan Kulow
wrote: I would like to know if someone had an interest in switching 12.2 to gcc 4.7 as default. Because it's quite some work and we'd need to start *NOW* - but it requires some people to actually work on it and take control. E.g. in mass building factory with it and fixing packages *before* we switch.
There wasn't some kind of (accidental?) ABI breakage? I would not want 12.2 to be incompatible with everything else.
Haem, not sure when that started to matter - but you're incompatible as soon as you compile against latest glibc symbols.
GCC 4.7 libraries installed on a 11.1 (yes, I know ...) work just fine.
They are ABI (backward) compatible. Everything else would be a bug.
Richard.
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Richard Guenther