new concept checks and the 3.0 ABI

Gabriel Dos Reis Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr
Fri Apr 6 11:00:00 GMT 2001


Joe Buck <jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com> writes:

| > | Note that http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/ talks about the multivendor
| > | ABI -- we never signed up, nor should we sign up, to having our library
| > | interoperable with other vendors' libraries.
| > 
| > If you don't want GCC/g++ comply to the multivendor ABI, that is not an
| > issue I'll dispute with you.  It *is* the fact that ABI is implemented
| > in the compiler.
| 
| No, that's not what I'm saying.  The ABI as described is fine.  I'm just
| saying that I see no reason to force our library to be exactly the same
| as everyone else's.

OK.

But honestly, we can't freeze the library -- that is too strong a
constraint. 

-- Gaby



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