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Re: C++ ABI
- From: Mat Hounsell <mat_geek at yahoo dot com dot au>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:44:18 +1000 (EST)
- Subject: Re: C++ ABI
With all the disscussion of ABI bugs, and compatability issues, I thought I
would toss this idea into the ether.
ABI's are just an output format.
As such they can be interchanged. It should be possible to configure GCC to
output a specific ABI, in the same way it can be configured to output to a
specific machine code.
If this were implemented RedHat et.al. could simplely compile the lastest GCC
with the GCC3.2 ABI for compatability. Also HP could provide there own HP
Compatabile ABI port.
As well a change to the ABI would not prevent users from upgrading to a newer
GCC version.
e.g. ./configure --abi=HP ...
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