Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 3.1/3.2

["Thomas Beaudry" <tmbeaudry@msn.com>]

>The GCC Page (http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.2/changes.html) says it is
>MultiVendor V3 compatible

ABI = Application Binary Interface.  What vendors of debuggers and
other tools see when they work with the output of GCC.  3.2 is
compatible with version 3 of the spec.

>- does that mean that it's compatible (again) with 2.95?  There
>aren't any other changes listed on the page, so does that also
>mean that no changes in code are required from 3.1 to 3.2 to compile?
>Will this just mean going from 2.95 to 3.2 will be a matter of fixing
>the ISO C/C++ standards, just as for going from 2.95 to 3.0?

Anything that compiled with 3.x will compile without change with
3.2.  As stated, the only changes are to the ABI, what other tools
interface with.

Thus you would need the same changes to 2.95 code as you would for any
of the other 3.x compilers.  My experience has been that bringing the
code into compliance with the ISO standards will fix any problems.


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