Re: GCC's ABI 5

2016-01-20 Thread Jim Wilson
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Yvan Roux wrote: >> I don't know how much distros were involved in the original design. >> Did they request the changes? Or was that an internal change? How do >> you guys get to decide when to break the world? It appears that changes to the C++ standard forced th

Re: GCC's ABI 5

2016-01-20 Thread Yvan Roux
Hi Renato, On 20 January 2016 at 12:38, Renato Golin wrote: > Folks, > > I'd like to know the general opinion on this: > > https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23529 > > From past experience, and my limited point of view, it seems that the > GCC community decided to change the ABI, plotted some

GCC's ABI 5

2016-01-20 Thread Renato Golin
Folks, I'd like to know the general opinion on this: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23529 From past experience, and my limited point of view, it seems that the GCC community decided to change the ABI, plotted some runes, conjured up a broken implementation (whose bugs people will exploit