Re: Bug#190399: Bug#246547: amd64 support for glibc 2.3.2.ds1-14
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 21:33 +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> On 04-Jul-08 13:58, Chris Cheney wrote:
> > I don't know if there is an actual ABI change but what it accepts is
> > more strict so it could break building packages, whether it breaks
> > binary compatibility though is another question.
>
> Yes, gcc-3.4 breaks some packackage because it is stricter.
>
> While recompiling my private amd64 archive with gcc-3.4.1 I found the
> following kinds of problems with gcc-3.4 in a (small) number of
> packages:
>
[snip examples]
>
> I am sure there will be more of those little problems (I still have to
> rebuild a few thousand packages with gcc-3.4.1). These problems
> are easy to fix. They must be fixed anyway because at some point
> debian _will_ switch to gcc-3.4. I do not think that these little
> problems should prevent us from using gcc-3.4 for the amd64 port.
>
> Regarding a possible ABI change, I suspect that there is no
> ABI change from gcc-3.3 to gcc-3.4 until someone points me
> to some kind of official document describing such a change.
The GCC team wouldn't just have made these strictness changes
without flagging warnings in earlier versions, would they?
Or did they, and is most/all compiled without the necessary -W
options?
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