-Wabi is misdesigned (answers the wrong question)

[Mark Mitchell]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 09:37, Joe Buck wrote:
> I think that -Wabi as currently implemented is useless.

I agree.  That's why I resisted adding it in the first place!

> 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.

That's not feasible without *major* work on the C++ front end itself.

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