Binary Compatibility

Fri Aug 1 13:14:00 GMT 2003

Mohan Embar writes:
 > Hi Andrew (and Michael),
 > 
 > >gcc 3.4 is, I believe, feature frozen. Any major changes will
 > >therefore have to wait until gcc 3.5. In the meantime I suppose we'll
 > >need a development branch for this work.
 > 
 > Does this mean that the nio stuff won't be done for 3.4?
Not at all.
a. The rules for libgcj are more relaxed than for gcc.
b. NIO is already in libgcj. It's just not finished.
I am proposing a total ABI overhaul. We can't do that for 3.4.
Andrew.