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Re: gcc4: next release


On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> GCC 4.5.x branch and the 4.6.x branch ABI changed for win64, I'm trying
>> to avoid breaking user's self-built packages, so 4.5.0 and earlier is
>> out of the question. The current 4.3.4 is too old for mingw-w64.
>
> ?Going with 4.5.1 seems the simplest solution.
>
> ?I'm slightly astonished though! ?How on earth did you manage to swing
> permission to put an ABI-breaking backwardly-incompatible change on a release
> branch?

4.5.x ABI and 4.6.x ABI are what differ, not 4.5.0 and 4.5.1.

There's no point in making the first shipped compiler have an ABI
that's already been changed.  Hence 4.6.


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