What about regular apps?  After reading this thread a bit I decided to 
download the gcc3.2 src rpm so I can build and install it.  After what you 
say I will certainly not use it to build my kernels but what about other 
apps?  

On Wednesday 28 August 2002 15:23, Todd Lyons wrote:
> James Sparenberg wrote on Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:15:52AM -0700 :
> > My understanding from the discussions I've seen on the net is that the
> > developers who do gcc listened and did include backwards compat for
> > programs previously compiled under gcc 2.2 or greater.  So far my
> > results on a box running cooker have proven this to be true.
>
> gcc-2.96 compiled binaries do not in fact have binary compatibility with
> gcc-3.2 compiled programs.  The biggest example of this at the present
> is the fact that some gcc-2.96 compiled binary only proprietary modules
> are experiencing problems being loaded in a gcc-3.2 compiled kernel.
> This is not just Mandrake experiencing this, this info is from a RedHat
> mailing list from their kernel developers.
>
> Stay tuned, things will get better soon.
>
> Blue skies...                 Todd

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