Question on back compat of RC5

[richardh]

I noted in a few places statements that suggest that backwards compatibility is broken from RC5 to what came before. If this is true, does this apply to to debian arm distro as well? I had gotten several commandline binaries from deb (i.e nmap, pkill) and was looking forward to having that massive archive to choose from. Is the compatiblity thing a lib issue or a kernel one or what?

Also, does anyone know if the feed2 for RC3 ipks is still available somewhere?

-Richard

[Bundabrg]

To be honest I havn't found any backward compatibility errors. (yet)

 - Bundabrg

[piotrek]

Laze said in rc5 thread that incompatibility is due new way of using floating point emulation. Every program must be compiled with that option to run on RC5. As far as I understand this  

[Laze]

Correct..

[jabbath]

Nope, that's incorrect.

I tried some of my programs originally compiled for 1.0.5 rc2,3 etc. and they ran fine.

I thought, for the "performance boost", the programs had to be recompiled.. :-??

jabbath

[stbrock]

Laze said in rc5 thread that incompatibility is due new way of using floating point emulation. Every program must be compiled with that option to run on RC5. As far as I understand this

Perhaps "every program" means "every program with floating point instructions"? I found that xmonobut from the original stable feed ran fine on RC5. It's a simple program which presumably doesn't require floating point. I would expect a modest subset of earlier programs like this may run as is without recompiling, assuming no other issues.

[sashz]

Perhaps "every program" means "every program with floating point instructions"?

yes, that right, but that impossible for check every app in old feed for FPA instructions, so is much better rebuild this apps.