[haiku-development] Re: GCC2 and GCC4 on same System
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 17:40:13 +0200 CEST
"Michael Lotz" <mmlr@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This approach will by the way probably not work for drivers as you
> cannot just use two kernels side by side. But I don't think it's a
> big
> issue to keep them either all GCC4 or all GCC2. If they use C++ at
> all,
> they will use it only very limited and they should stay compatible
> with
> GCC2 more easily than big applications.
The kernel only uses C interfaces, and drivers using C++ should link
against libgcc.a directly.
So the kernel would only eventually suffer from differences in
alignment and padding in structures.
Bye,
Axel.
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