Re: Question on DSO and visibility

2016-09-14 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 14 September 2016 at 15:26, Paul Smith wrote: > On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 10:13 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: >> The real problem is that your library will depend on a newer libstdc++ >> but that's orthogonal to the ABI changes. Statically linking it is one >> solution, deploying the newer libstdc++

Re: Question on DSO and visibility

2016-09-14 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 10:13 +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 11 September 2016 at 22:38, Paul Smith wrote: > > I wonder if someone can comment on this situation: I'll do some testing > > but I likely can't test everything. > > > > I'm creating DSO's for GNU/Linux with GCC 4.9.2 right now. I wan

Re: Question on DSO and visibility

2016-09-14 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 11 September 2016 at 22:38, Paul Smith wrote: > I wonder if someone can comment on this situation: I'll do some testing > but I likely can't test everything. > > I'm creating DSO's for GNU/Linux with GCC 4.9.2 right now. I want to > upgrade to GCC 6.2.0. My code is written in C++. I'm aware o

Question on DSO and visibility

2016-09-11 Thread Paul Smith
I wonder if someone can comment on this situation: I'll do some testing but I likely can't test everything. I'm creating DSO's for GNU/Linux with GCC 4.9.2 right now.  I want to upgrade to GCC 6.2.0.  My code is written in C++.  I'm aware of the C++ STL ABI break in GCC 5.x. I have users who will