Faramarz Jalalian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the sympathy and info. I wish I knew about this before. I
> understand the reasoning behind this
> policy decision however it's obviously not a perfect decision since it
> means that any application compiled with
> g++ will not be able to use libraries compiled with CC. I think the real
> solution (if possible at all) would be to
> use a consistent ABI (that would still cause backward compatibility issues).
Sun Studio has used a consistent ABI for C++ for many years now.
g++ has not, and continues to evolve it's ABI in new releases,
making them even incompatible with libraries compiled with older
g++ versions.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
