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Re: Historic C++ ABI question
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: "gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 19:57:00 +0200
- Subject: Re: Historic C++ ABI question
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On 06/01/2016 05:39 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
Given these definitions
struct base
{
int a;
int b;
};
struct plus : base
{
virtual ~plus();
};
is there a historic C++ ABI which puts the vtable at offset 8 in struct
plus (after the fields from struct base)? This must have been before
the Itanium C++ ABI.
GCC 2.95 on i386 produces such layout.
Was it possible to generate it with later compilers? The GCC 3.0
release notes say that a new C++ ABI was implemented. Was there really
no backwards compatibility?
Florian