From: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
To: Bernd Jendrissek <berndj@prism.co.za>
Cc: Kendrick Hamilton <hamilton@sedsystems.ca>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem Installing Linux Kernel Module compiled with gcc-3.2.x
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:02:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030530120231.A1328@synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030530204332.C7564@prism.co.za>; from berndj@prism.co.za on Fri, May 30, 2003 at 08:43:32PM +0200
On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 08:43:32PM +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> > Is there any reason, other than the above-described bit of evil, for doing
> > this (forbidding mixing)? It prevents the bug-finding approach I
> > described earlier (a binary search for finding miscompiled code) from
> > working.
>
> Between GCC 2.x and 3.x the *major* version changed (duh). I would
> imagine that people are/were (justifiably?) concerned that ABI's might
> have changed. From your response, I assume there are no ABI changes
> for C at least? I suppose a gratuitous ABI change would constitute a
> bug, though...
There are no ABI changes for C.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-30 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305300919510.3613-100000@sw-55.sedsystems.ca>
2003-05-30 17:22 ` Problem Installing Linux Kernel Module compiled with gcc-3.2.x Bernd Jendrissek
2003-05-30 17:31 ` Kendrick Hamilton
2003-05-30 18:02 ` Bernd Jendrissek
2003-05-30 17:33 ` Joe Buck
2003-05-30 18:43 ` Bernd Jendrissek
2003-05-30 19:02 ` Joe Buck [this message]
2003-05-30 19:36 ` Alan Cox
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