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Re: C++ ABI RFC [was Re: C++/libiberty PATCH for many mangling fixes (6057, 48051, 50855, 51322, etc)]


On 13 January 2012 17:45, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>
> Note that one of the objectives of this email is to try and get
> maintainers from thinking there is going to be "a perfect time" to
> switch. Development history tells us there will always be more changes.
> We've been sitting on ABI-breaking changes since 2003.

e.g. http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51823 which I only
learnt about the other day.

And they keep on coming too, here's a brand new one:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2011-12/msg00153.html

Which is why I asked that aside about starting to fix those things
when --enable-symvers=gnu-versioned-namespace is used, so that they're
correct in v7 asap.  If I can't make std::future::wait_for() return
future_status::deferred without breaking the v6 ABI, I'd like to at
least get the fix out of my git clone and into libstdc++.so.7

> So, the smart thing to do is to plan a transition..... and to allow
> testing in an easy and reproducible manner beforehand. The more time
> the better.

I'm sold :)


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