On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Adi Stav wrote:
> I haven't tried, but if I understood correctly the frontend was hardly
> changed, while the C++ frontend was almost rewritten from scratch. Probably
> Gnome compilation will be affected less strongly than KDE. At work I tried
> to recompile some of our C libraries (works fine) and C++ librariess
> (tons of errors, fails). I don't know whether the C++ problems in KDE's case
> and in my own expriments' case were GCC's fauilt or that the code was wrong,
> though.
much more likely that it's the code's fault. g++ (and libstdc++v3)
conform much better to the c++ standard, which means it will not accept
code it might've accepted in the past.
on behalf of the gcc developers, if you think you found a bug in gcc,
reconsider. one of the critical release criteria of gcc was that there
will be _no_ regressions from gcc-2.95.2. code that compiles with
gcc-2.95.2 and no longer compiles with gcc-3.0 is probably not standards
conforming (enough). consult with someone who really knows the language.
try other (standards conforming!) compilers. only then, if you are sure
you found a bug, use the 'gccbug' shell script to report it.
re compiling the kernel with gcc-3.0: you can do it, but it's not
recommended. even if the compilation succeeds (i dont think it does, at
the moment, some problem with builtin functions) there is a whole slew
of arcane magic and black wizardry that can go wrong, if the compiler
does something differently than what it used to do. you might get a
kernel that runs, but silently trashes your data. in other words, try
it, but if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces...
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