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Re: libstdc++-v3 stability?
- From: Loren James Rittle <rittle at latour dot rsch dot comm dot mot dot com>
- To: libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:58:21 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: libstdc++-v3 stability?
- Organization: Networks and Infrastructure Lab (IL02/2240), Motorola Labs
- References: <3C62C240.917F5263@apple.com>
> 1) The library ABI for gcc-3.1.x will remain fixed for the life of gcc-3.1.
> This means no-ABI-breaking fixes in gcc-3.1.x's libstdc++. We tried to do
> this with gcc-3.0.x, but lack of symbol versioning got in the way.
Do we have a mechanism to detect such breakage? Seems like we would
need to build a suite of dynamically-linked programs (the entire test
suite perhaps) with g++ 3.1 and then run-time link against the
libstdc++.so de jour.
Regards,
Loren