Switching the default for -fabi-version
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Wed Oct 22 08:28:00 GMT 2003
> Well, maybe someone with in depth knowledge of what ABI things
> have changed should chime in at this point and indicate what
> has actually changed :-)
The short answer is "in some classes, some fields will be at different
offsets". But that sounds much more severe than it really is; the
longer answer is "in a few corner-case classes -- such as those with
lots of empty base classes, or those that have base classes that end
with bitfields -- the offsets of some virtual bases and/or fields might
change."
There are also a few places (involving complex templates) where the
mangled name of a function changed.
The descriptions of *what* changed aren't as important as the question
of *how much code* is affected. And, when you bear in mind that the C++
runtime library is bumping its version number again, the answer is
"almost none".
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Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
CodeSourcery, LLC
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