mario guerra <emailformario@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > --- On Tue, 4/14/09, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> The C++ compiler/library is supposed to have a stable ABI >> as of gcc 4.0 >> and later. For earlier versions, you pretty much do >> have to do a build >> for each version. > > If we built our simulator with 4.x, wouldn't that potentially break > some of our third party vendors who are still using some variant of > 3.x? The 4.x library isn't backwards compatible, is it? No, the 4.x library is not reliably backward compatible. Actually it may be backward compatible to 3.4, but not before that. For earlier versions you will still have to do a build for each version. Ian
