https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=79046
--- Comment #7 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Dave Johansen from comment #6) > Could that be made a guarantee? Right now, having to build plugins against > the full version of GCC is a major pain for distributions and saying that > GCC plugins are API/ABI stable for a major version would eliminate that pain > point. It is a major pain to do it really. Since the plugin ABI/API right now is the internals of GCC. This is something which is mentioned over and over again but until someone makes a true plugin API, it is not going to happen.