Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] Preparing for gcc-4.8.2 release

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On 22/08/13 12:13, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> ... why preclude the use of mingwrt-4.x and w32api-4.x with
>> earlier GCC?  I'm using, and indeed am dependent on both of them,
>> (or rather on wsl-4.0, to be precise), for mingw-get, yet I'm
>> still building with GCC-3.4.5.  This WJFFM.
> 
> The released versions will be built with gcc-4.8.1 and we have a 
> stated ABI change.

Do you mean the change in internal layout of the (supposedly opaque)
dirent struct?  That really shouldn't cause a problem, unless one such
struct is created on one side of, and manipulated on the other side of a
module (e.g. DLL) boundary, with differing ABI versions on either side.

> I could just limit the new releases of gcc, binutils and dependents
> to the runtime and API 4.0.  Do you feel that is enough?

I think so; possibly even that is more than is necessary.

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Regards,
Keith.