Re: compatibility of libg2c and libffi built by gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Thiemo Seufer writes:
> Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is one of the last questions before an upload of gcc-3.4 to
> > unstable ...
> > 
> > Both libg2c and libffi have the same soname version for it's shared
> > library, when built with gcc-3.3 and gcc-3.4. The release notes for
> > gcc-3.4 list some incompatibilities for mips-linux (i.e. passing and
> > returning arguments of type complex). Are these both really compatible
> > (can the gcc-3.4 built libararies a replacement for these built with
> > gcc-3.3)?
> 
> AFAICS only if the interfaces of those libraries don't trigger any
> of the changes. The little endian side is hit harder by that, IIRC.

ok, I'll disable g77 for mipsel to be on the save side, unless there
is not more information for mipsel-linux.