C++98/C++11 ABI compatibility for gcc-4.7

Jason Merrill jason@redhat.com
Tue Jul 3 19:36:00 GMT 2012


On 06/18/2012 04:46 AM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> The problems arise when user code that uses the "inline-only" code is
> linked to other user-code that has a different definition of that
> inline-only code.

What problems arise then?  As long as the interface of the user code is 
the same, it doesn't matter which definition of the inline-only code is 
used.

On 06/18/2012 06:14 AM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> A related question is whether for GCC-4.8 we should still continue
> to claim that C++11 is only experimental?  That is at which point are

My hope is to nail down the ABI enough for 4.8 that we can drop that claim.

Jason



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