On 21/02/2010 20:03, Martin Guy wrote: > The point about defaults is that the GCC default tends to filter down > into the default for distributions;
I'd find it surprising if that was really the way it happens; don't distributions make deliberate and conscious decisions about binary standards and things like that? They certainly ought to be doing so, IMO, rather than just going with whatever-the-compiler-does-when-you-don't-tell-it-what-to-do. cheers, DaveK