Re: EEEEKS! The mangling changed!

[anderson at freestandards dot org]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Matt Austern wrote:

> The C++ ABI deliberately doesn't address the library.  That's a major
> lack, and we would have liked for it to cover the library, but when we
> thought about it we decided it was just too hard.  Maybe someone will
> figure out a way to address the library in a future version of the ABI
> document.

We are trying to address this in the LSB.

	http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/gLSB/gLSB/book1.html

Possibly even more interesting that the spec, is the tool that can measure
libstdc++.so against the spec. A snapshot of this tool can be found in

	http://www.linuxbase.org/~anderson/c++/cxxabichk.tar.gz

This is all still work in progress, but there is a lot of coverage so far.


                                Stuart

anderson@freestandards.org                             Free Standards Group
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