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Re: Status of std::string ABI change
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>, "Peter A. Bigot" <pab at pabigot dot com>
- Cc: libstdc++ <libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 12:32:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: Status of std::string ABI change
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On 11/25/2013 12:13 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
ABI changes are never fun. I wonder how they got away with this
without a huge outcry...
The best protection against that is to change ABI on every release, so
that users don't expect any stability.
Now if only a stable ABI wasn't so convenient ...
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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team