-Wabi is misdesigned (answers the wrong question)
Joe Buck
jbuck@synopsys.com
Wed Oct 22 17:35:00 GMT 2003
I think that -Wabi as currently implemented is useless.
The picture I had in mind when we first talked about it was this:
if -Wabi is on, we would compute the layout of a class using the
3.2 algorithm and the ABI-compliant (modulo unknown bugs) algorithm,
and object iff there is a difference.
However, -Wabi as implemented doesn't do that: it objects to any
usage that potentially *might* tweak an algorithm difference.
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