no compat-libstdc++ in development?

[Mike Hearn]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:07:05 -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> FC3 has compat-libstdc++-8-3.3.4.1, which contains the 2.96-RH libstdc++.so
> as well as GCC 3.3 libstdc++.so.
> You cannot compile new programs with 2.96-RH though, which is done on
> purpose.  FC3 is going to contain compat-gcc (GCC 3.3.4, hopefully with a
> switch for GCC 3.2 binary compatibility), gcc (GCC 3.4.[12]) and gcc35
> (preview of GCC trunk, which ought to be binary compatible with 3.4.[12]).
> Shipping more compilers is just insane.

Am I right in thinking the bincompat breaks between 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 are
all related to very obscure parts of the c++ standard and probably won't
affect people on a day to day basis? Last time I checked this was the
case, but that was a while ago ...

thanks -mike