6.0-Current and gcc 4.x

[Steve Kargl]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:25:08PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-06-22 at 18:19 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > 
> > The ABI breakage at numerous points early in the GCC 3.x branch was
> > extremely disruptive.
> 
> This is the amd64 mailing list, so I assume you are talking about amd64
> machines and I thought the architecture wasn't really supported before
> GCC 3.x.  In any event, I doubt there would be any such disruption
> between 3.x and 4.x.  The amd64 ABI is pretty solid now, correct?
> 

The machine description for amd64 may not have changed.
The ABI breakage may have occurred at the shared library
level.  GCC is preparing an early release of 4.0.1 in part
to address breakage where KDE does not work correctly and/or
can't even be compiled with 4.0.0. 

-- 
Steve