On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > My version of Cary's notes (I just wrote this on my Google+ stream): > > We had a useful discussion about C++11 ABI issues at the GNU Tools > Cauldron (http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2012). The approach will be > shaped over time, but the general idea is as follows.
I could not attend the Cauldron -- even though I am in a neighboring country :-/ (I am attending a conference.) I met with Benjamin in Paris a week ago, and he outlined some of the plans to me. In particular, I fully support his suggestion of having the compiler dump enough introspection/reflection/meta data to be able to algorithmically decide, e.g. compute, ABIs. As for prior work in dumping meta data, there are many examples that we might want to consider: Java of course, Go was mentioned, but also closely related anguages such as C# and C++/CLI. -- Gaby
