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RE: HPUX C++ ABI



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Law [mailto:law@porcupine.slc.redhat.com]
>Precisely what platform?  Is the PA or IA-64?  For the former, I'd be
>rather surprised if aCC with a G++-like ABI is in that widespread
>production use.  For the latter, it would seem to me that there may
>be alternate compilers one day.
It is on IA64 only. 

>My opinions are mixed here.  I'd love to see HP's compilers and GCC be
>ABI compatible -- that's a win for both HP and GCC.  But I'm not all
>that thrilled to see us installing hacks to work around bugs in HP's
>compiler.  I guess it would probably depend on how extensive 
>the changes
>are and whether or not HP will eventually fix their compiler.
>
>jeff
I only found about 3 places where I have to change g++ to make 
it compatible with aCC, they should all be small changes like 
the patch I just sent.  I also need an option in g++ to tell 
the compiler to use aCC runtime. 

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Jessica Han
Open Source Tools 
Hewlett-Packard
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