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Re: egcs 1.2 C++ ABI (Re: C++: STL 3.2)

>>>>> Martin v Loewis <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

 >> This is OK; so long as the data structures are similar enough the only
 >> harm would be having two copies of the code in the executable.

 > It depends on the application. Consider

 > extern void foo(vector<int>&);

Ah, yes.

 >> But it is backward compatible.  I don't mind requiring people to use
 >> the newest compiler to link mixed code.

 > Ok. So 1.2 is backwards-compatible in the sense that you can link 1.1
 > libraries into 1.2 applications, right? (Unless they use STL).

Right.

Jason