Compiling GCC with g++: a report

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:14:42PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > I'm not sure what the above may imply for your ongoing discussion, tough...
> 
> Well, if I were running the show, the 'clock' would only start running
> when it was consensus among the libstdc++ developers that the soname
> would not be bumped again - that henceforth libstdc++ was committed to
> binary compatibility as good as glibc's.  Or better, if y'all can manage
> it.  It doesn't sound like we're there yet, to me.

Why can't libstdc++ use symbol versioning?  glibc has maintained the soname
and binary comptiblity despite changing fundamental types like FILE