Re: [AD] ABI document update

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I noticed that the CVS abi._tx says that the ABI for MacOS X will be PPC only. Will this change in the future to include Mac Intel when they become publicly available (and some one gets one ;-) )

Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz wrote:

On 2005-07-07, Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We need to update abi._tx for the 4.2 release. [...]

Commited.

We need a Mac guy to write a short section for MacOS X.

Added to todo.txt.

I've toned the document down as it was, frankly, embarrassing.

At least it was funny.

On 2005-07-07, Evert Glebbeek <eglebbk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
We also need to decide if we will maintain both backwards
and forwards compatibility, or just backwards compatibility.
The former means we can't add/change/remove any (public)
symbols at all.  The latter means we can add new symbols,
but we can't change or remove any.
I say stick to backward compatibility only, if only because it's
easier for us to make sure we don't break it. ;)

Isn't forward compatibility only a problem with C++ where adding a
method may completely change classes' sizes and stuff like that? I
don't think that's a problem for C.


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