Re: [PATCH 2/2] RFT: Remove ABS macro from boot/i386/pc/boot.S

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 08:34:41PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> Haiku can be compiled and can use either gcc 4.x or gcc2.95. The main
> reason for them to keep gcc 2.95 possibility is the binary
> compatibility with BeOS. As François Revol explained me on IRC C++ ABI
> changed from gcc2 to gcc3 and as BeOS and Haiku heavily rely on C++
> it's impossible to launch BeOS apps under Haiku if it was compiled
> with gcc4.

Ok, but this doesn't seem to be related to GRUB, since we don't need to
link its utils with any proprietary code.  Can't they compile runtime
libraries intended for BeOS compatibility using gcc2 and use gcc4 for
GRUB (and, well, just about everything else)?

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