GCC 3+ and ABI

[Eljay Love-Jensen]

Hi Tom,

Are you linking C++, or C code?

The C ABI is, I've heard, the same.

The C++ ABI has undergone a significant overhaul.  I think along the lines 
of exception handling infrastructure, name mangling, register usage 
protocols (on select platforms), C++ streams and other I/O, RTTI support 
and infrastructure, exceptions thrown out of a shared library (.so, .dll) 
which not supported in 2.95.

Those are just some of the big ones.  I'm sure that the website has more 
intimate (and correct!) details, as well as some of the GCC gurus on this 
forum.  But that should be good enough for a heads up.

Sincerely,
--Eljay