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Re: backward compatibility of gcc 3.3<- 4.x ?
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Paul Pluzhnikov |
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Re: backward compatibility of gcc 3.3<- 4.x ? |
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Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:56:48 -0700 |
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Amit Bhatia<amit.bhatia.nospam@nospam.gmail.com> writes:
> I am using os X 10.3.9 with xcode 1.5 and gcc 3.3.
I am not familiar with that environment ...
> I believe this version of gcc/g++ is pretty old now
Correct: the latest version of 3.x series is 3.4.6
> and am thinking of updating to gcc 4.0
Current released version is 4.1.1
> Is it expected that all the compiled libraries will continue to
> function and link smoothly if I make this upgrade?
If these packages expose plain-C API, they are likely to continue
to function. OTOH, if they expose C++ API, they are very unlikely
to work at all -- there have been several ABI changes since gcc 3.3
Cheers,
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