On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Jakub Jelinek wrote: >> Revisions 176335 removed the traditional "#include <unistd.h>" from >> gthr-posix.h. This breaks the build of many programs (Firefox, Chromium, >> etc.) that implicitly rely on it. > This isn't the first time the libstdc++ headers were cleaned up, and > each time there are dozens of programs that need to be fixed up. Each > time they just were fixed.
I think that is a bit too much of a cavalier approach. For example, right now I am in the process of changing the compiler FreeBSD uses for Fortran packages from GCC 4.5 to 4.6 and 100% of the issues we run into are not related to Fortran but...C++. Breaking source code compatbility with a step like GCC 3 to GCC 4 is one thing, but constantly doing so with every release is just painful and makes as look bad. And it hinders the adoption of newer releases. Gerald
