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Re: how to disable __thiscall on MinGW-gcc-4.7.x ?
On Saturday 12 of May 2012 23:00:13 JonY wrote:
> On 5/9/2012 21:33, niXman wrote:
> > 2012/5/9 VÃclav Zeman:
> >> It is the platforms ABI, why would you want to disable it?
> > If it is the platforms ABI, why before version 4.7.x this was not required?
> > I do not want to use the thiscall in 4.7.x version, and the next versions.
> >
>
> This is an ABI change, a move to make GCC closer to C++ ABI on Windows
> (namely MSVC).
are there any benefits from this move? iirc gcc users can't call msvc-c++
parts directly due to different objects layout and name mangling.