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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com,
        robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:42:49 +0000
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Subject: Re: GCC incompatibilities
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Andrew Crabtree wrote:
> 
> > > compatibility problems between object files produced by 
> > > different versions of GCC.
> > In many cases, yes.  Most seem to be related to c++ stuff.
> 
> Are there *any* problems whatsoever related to C?  For example, is the
> stock libc.a good for GCC 2.8.1/EGCS/PGCC?
> 
> > The biggest gotchas here have been exception handling and rtti I
> > think.
> 
> Is Robert's recommendation to use -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti at all
> relevant to C programs which mix objects compiled by different
> versions of GCC?

Here is my limited experience (only gcc 2.7.2 to 2.8.0):

It affects only C++ C libraries can be mixed. You can't mix C++ libraries 
because 2.8.0 adds some hidden members so when you link 2.8.0 code with 2.7.2 
libraries the linker looks for these hidden members and the linkage fails.
Looks like -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti avoids the hidden members and hence you 
can link without problems.

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