Long-term plan for C++98/C++11 incompatibility

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Thu Jan 5 22:23:00 GMT 2012


On 01/05/2012 01:38 PM, Joe Buck wrote:
>> Class layout in the ABI still uses the C++98 definition of POD.
>
> But does this actually matter?

Yes, since PODness affects the use of tail padding.  But it isn't a 
source of ABI incompatibility since "POD for the purpose of layout" 
isn't changing.

Jason



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