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To: Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
Subject: Re: /sys/boot, egcs vs. gcc, -Os 
Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>, current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 07 Apr 1999 21:09:16 PDT."
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 12:03:15 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904072108290.94006-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> Alex Zepeda writes:
: That was one of the BIG pitfalls of egcs, binary incompatable C++ programs
: and libs.  Sounds like you're overdue for your favorite shot of caffiene.

g++ and its derivitives have never been binary compatible for long.
I'm aware of at least three ABI breakagese since 2.4.x.  This is one
reason that OI/uib will no longer work on Linux systems :-(.

Warner


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