------- Comment #12 from pcarlini at suse dot de 2005-10-06 17:01 ------- I'm attaching a first draft implementing what I have in mind. Assuming testing goes well, the issue of binary compatibility should be evaluated: whereas the library-ABI is preserved, in general object code build with the current lib and with the new one will not be able to safely exchange empty strings. I don't how much this is an issue for the Cygwin project (certainly it would be for a linux distribution).
Consider, anyway, that we are talking about a new configure option and those can break the binary compatibility in any way (like changing the locale model, for instance), we don't provide guarantees in those cases. We can try to figure out ways to improve that, but I'm not super confident we can make it. If binary compatibility is a major requirement, then the --enable-fully-dynamic-string option would be ok, maybe improved along the way I mentioned yesterday. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24196
