On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Richard Guenther wrote: > > Sounds good to me; certainly as soon as 4.3.0 gets out and gets wider > > testing, people will find things. In the past we only used the 4th digit > > for paper-bag issues (like failure to bootstrap on a major platform or > > broken release tarballs). > > Heh, we even did a quick 3.2 release after fixing ABI issues in 3.1.
Which I consider to be a mistake (the idea was that 3.2 would conform to the C++ ABI, but further bugs were found later). The next deliberate C++ ABI change can hopefully happen whenever we find it necessary to bump the libstdc++ soname. -- Joseph S. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
