[haiku-commits] Re: r34717 - haiku/trunk/headers/build/os

  • From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:45:21 +0100 CET

>
> On 2009-12-20 at 18:08:39 [+0100], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx wrote:
> > > Log:
> > > Also allow gcc 3 as the host compiler.
> >
> > Since GCC nowadays follows a standard ABI
> > (http://www.codesourcery.com/public/cxx-abi/),
> > maybe B_HAIKU_ABI_GCC_4 is something of a misnomer?
>
> Unless I'm much mistaken, the ABI doesn't have a catchy name, which
> makes
> naming a constant after it somewhat difficult. B_HAIKU_ABI_NEW
> certainly
> doesn't sound better than the current name.

Well, actually it's the ABI introduced for the Itanium platform IIRC,
which was adopted as a de facto for other platforms too since there
weren't any...

François.

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