libstdc++ c++98 & c++11 ABI incompatibility

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 14 June 2012 14:14, Matthias Klose wrote:
> So what could be done for a distribution?
>
>  - For this particular issue, ask upstreams to work around this
>   particular incompatibility.  This might work better, if the
>   upstream sits "closer" to the distribution, but doesn't seem
>   to be a general solution.
>
>  - Identify all libraries with this incompatibility, and build
>   the library twice for each mode. That would need a new soname
>   when built in c++11 mode (which better should be done upstream
>   first), and some logic to link with the c++11 library when
>   building in c++11 mode.  But I don't think that distributions
>   want to build and maintain a second c++ stack.

Or bump the libstdc++ soname and add the size member to std::list in
c++98 mode too.

I don't see that being a popular choice yet, but it is likely to
happen eventually.