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Re: changing include/g++-v3 to something a bit more obvious
- To: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Subject: Re: changing include/g++-v3 to something a bit more obvious
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 17:35:59 -0800 (PST)
- cc: pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com, libstdc++ at sources dot redhat dot com
> Phil> There's already an 'include' subdir; we could just make it
> Phil> 'include/g++' and let the pathname speak for itself.
>
> The difficulty here is that, in theory, if we actually get the C++ ABI
> stable (which it's supposed to be after 3.0), you might want to use
> the same old library with a brand-new compiler. (Why? Because the
> library ABI is bound to change; it's not fully done yet. So, if you
> want to use a new compiler with better optimization, etc., but still
> produce link-compatible stuff you might stick with the old library.)
right. Thanks for giving this implementor flexibility WRT to the API....
> I agree that making -V actually work would be terrfic, so I think on
> balance I like Phil's suggestion. It's going to need discussion on
> the GCC lists, and possibly even with the SC, though; I can't decide
> this unilaterally.
this makes at least three of us...... since this is going to change soon
anyway, this might be a good time to do it.
Note that most of the actual work is aready done, (see the
--enable-version-specific-runtime-libs configure option here:
http://sources.redhat.com/libstdc++/configopts.html)
-benjamin