Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:56:10 -0300
On Monday, 9 June 2025 16:28:51 Brasilia Standard Time Avi Kivity via Std-
Proposals wrote:
> Acknowledged. But today, such users can be moved to containers, and I
> don't see that a 10-year-old program needs a 1-day-old compiler. I
> think a 10-year deprecation cycle for ABIs is reasonable - an ABI lives
> for 20 years, and 10 years into its life we launch the next generation
> with accumulated fixes.
But the 1-year-old application will need to deal with two ABIs.
Proposals wrote:
> Acknowledged. But today, such users can be moved to containers, and I
> don't see that a 10-year-old program needs a 1-day-old compiler. I
> think a 10-year deprecation cycle for ABIs is reasonable - an ABI lives
> for 20 years, and 10 years into its life we launch the next generation
> with accumulated fixes.
But the 1-year-old application will need to deal with two ABIs.
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Principal Engineer - Intel Platform & System Engineering
Received on 2025-06-09 19:56:17