Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:02:31 -0700
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
Message-ID: <20030530120231.A1328@synopsys.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0305300919510.3613-100000@sw-55.sedsystems.ca> <20030530192240.A7564@prism.co.za> <20030530103329.A848@synopsys.com> <20030530204332.C7564@prism.co.za>
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In-Reply-To: <20030530204332.C7564@prism.co.za>; from berndj@prism.co.za on Fri, May 30, 2003 at 08:43:32PM +0200
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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.
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