Re: Problem Installing Linux Kernel Module compiled with gcc-3.2.x

[Joe Buck]

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 08:43:32PM +0200, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> > Is there any reason, other than the above-described bit of evil, for doing
> > this (forbidding mixing)?  It prevents the bug-finding approach I
> > described earlier (a binary search for finding miscompiled code) from
> > working.
> 
> Between GCC 2.x and 3.x the *major* version changed (duh).  I would
> imagine that people are/were (justifiably?) concerned that ABI's might
> have changed.  From your response, I assume there are no ABI changes
> for C at least?  I suppose a gratuitous ABI change would constitute a
> bug, though...

There are no ABI changes for C.