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Re: HPUX C++ ABI
- From: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 08:31:02 -0500
- Subject: Re: HPUX C++ ABI
- Organization: Red Hat / Chicago
> What do others think?
I think there should be some plan aimed at converging the HP C++ ABI and
the GNU C++ ABI. Then both ABI's could be well-described by some
external, vendor-neutral standard, which I thought was the whole point
of the IA64 C++ ABI. How HP and the gcc community should best update and
version their C++ ABI is still up in the air, and not convered by any
document or standard.
The alternative, suggested as death by a thousand HP-specific ABI hacks
for HPUX on IA64, increasingly seems to be a bad idea. This approach
seems best suited as small patches in their own tree: merging these
fixes into the GCC repository gives them no incentive to fix the
underlying issues in the HP compiler. There are already too many
HP-specific hacks in the runtime, for instance. I'm less and less
interested in putting more in.
-benjamin