Binary Compatibility

Julian Seward (Intl Vendor) v-julsew@microsoft.com
Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:35:21 -0800


| -----Original Message-----
| From: Sigbjorn Finne [mailto:sof@galois.com]=20
| Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 1:27 AM
| To: Ashley Yakeley
| Cc: GHC List
| Subject: Re: Binary Compatibility
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| > Apologies if this has been covered before. What=20
| compatibility is there=20
| > between code compiled in different versions of GHC?
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| As a rule, none. Always recompile your code for every new
| release.

Yes, even patchlevel ones.  For your specific case we know
for sure that the code produced by 5.02 is incompatible
with both 5.02.2 and 5.03.

J