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Re: Linux and Windows generate different binaries
On Sun, 2017-07-16 at 17:32 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 11:54:43PM +0300, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 16 Jul 2017, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > >
> > > I am well aware, and that is not what I asked. If we would use
> > > stable sorts everywhere
> > How? There's no stable sort in libc and switching over to
> > std::stable_sort would be problematic.
> Why?
Actually GCC has been carrying around its very own implementation of
sort algorithms in libstdc++. It's just not being used for the
compiler itself. Because before GCC was compiled as C, using them was
impossible. But now that it's compiled as C++, why not just use the
algos from GCC's libstdc++?
Cheers,
Oleg