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Date:      Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:57:11 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org>
Cc:        kan@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org, Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com>, obrien@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libstdc++ version bump.
Message-ID:  <20050629045711.GA1007@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050628164703.GK40423@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <20050628154627.GJ40423@elvis.mu.org> <790a9fff05062809211c27a435@mail.gmail.com> <20050628164703.GK40423@elvis.mu.org>

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:47:03AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> No, it's not that.  It's just that when we decided to upgrade gcc/g++
> in the 5.2.1 era someone didn't bump the library version for
> libstdc++.
>=20
> It would have been a two second change, but instead it appears that
> it was decided that early adopters REALLY needed to be put in their
> place for being stupid enough... to be early adopters.

No, it wasn't that simple..there were many places where the ABI was
broken, and it wasn't feasible to fix them all.

Kris

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