Re: binary compatibility

From: sol gongola (sol_at_adldata.com)
Date: 11/28/05


Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 15:16:42 -0500

Michael Kraemer wrote:
> In article <438b5757$0$27881$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net>, Uli Link
> <VonRechts.NachLinks@usenet.arcornews.de> writes:
>
>>With IBM C/C++ compiler you can change the symbolic link
>>/etc/vac.cfg -> /etc/vac53.cfg to /etc/vac51.cfg and and also adjust the
>>links under /usr/vac/lib
>>
>>Your chances to produce compatible binaries are much better, but it is
>>unsupported. Trial and error, but works most times.
>
>
> Huh ? Is this a novel feature ?
> In the past 15 years or so, code compiled on 4.x didn't work on 3.x,
> not even 4.x did work on 4.y ( for x > y ).

Version 3 and 4 were very different
Version 4 and 5 are very different
Subversions changes (between 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 or 5.2 and 5.3)
have a chance of compatibility.

sol



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