Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:37:33 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: RELEASE BLOCKER: Linux doesn't follow x86/x86-64 ABI wrt direction flag |
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Robert Dewar wrote: >> >> Not really, it's just a matter of time. Typical distro cycles are on >> the order of 3 years. >> >> -hpa > > again, in the real world, there are MANY projects that are nothing > like this interactive when it comes to moving to new versions of > operating systems.
This is true, but beyond a certain point projects generally accept that they have to monitor their toolchain dependencies.
-hpa
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