> That said: whatever became of backward compatibility and ABI > adherence? Is there a good reason why a compiler change and > mixing object modules from different gcc versions can trigger > this panic? I would have thought the answer to that would be > "no", but I'm willing to be educated...
Another datapoint maybe. I've manage to rebuild a few 7.0_BETAs without scratching the old obj files and all arch i386 has survived those upgrades. The only system that has crashed for me was arch amd64. Was that what you where running on your machine too? Re, /P
