Re: sane and gcc 2.96

From: Nick Lamb (njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Nov 19 2000 - 16:51:40 PST

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    On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 06:03:02PM -0500, Statux wrote:
    > Did they ever fix their _little_ problem with gcc 2.96 and the fact that
    > they didn't even bother to note that it's a development version that
    > produces incompatible object code.. such code that will never work with
    > anything else even in future releases?

    SANE is not written in C++. The Unix C ABI is a de facto standard and is
    not affected by the endless twiddling of Stroustrup and Co. Perhaps
    this question would be better asked of some people who are doomed to
    use one of the many variants of C++?

    Nick.

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