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Re: C++ ABI Issues
- From: Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>
- To: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- Cc: phil at jaj dot com (Phil Edwards), mark at codesourcery dot com (Mark Mitchell), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 28 Aug 2002 00:27:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: C++ ABI Issues
- Organization: Integrable Solutions
- References: <200208272221.PAA00012@atrus.synopsys.com>
Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.com> writes:
| Gaby writes:
| > Well, if the compiler were to be issueing a warning about a class
| > being laid out differently according to ABI differences, then it
| > certainly should be possible to tell the nature of the difference and
| > how things change from one set to the other. That means, the compiler
| > should be able to do the adjustment.
|
| The compiler can warn that gcc 3.2 and a compiler that implements the ABI
| document correctly will lay out a class differently. But given this
| knowledge, how is it supposed to figure out what the user wants to happen?
| It doesn't know which compiler compiled the "other half" of the code: the
| library being called, or the caller of the library.
Aren't we talking of a bug in GCC -- which other compilers known to
implement the ABI don't have?
[...]
| You appear to assume that these padding objects will be needed all over
| the place.
No. I'm not comfortable with using warts and code uglification to try
to do the compiler's work. We do know the bugs we're talking about.
-- Gaby