Re: libstdc++ soname and versioning (was: Re: Compiling GCC...)

2005-05-25 Thread Theodore Papadopoulo
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 08:29 -0500, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > The project I'm proposing is not to move to C++. Just to move to the > intersection of C and C++, which is what we had agreed on in previous > discussions. Someone needs to implement those decisions, that is what > I'm trying to do (of c

Re: libstdc++ soname and versioning (was: Re: Compiling GCC...)

2005-05-25 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
On Wed, 25 May 2005, Theodore Papadopoulo wrote: | All that being said, I do not know why this C++ transition should be | blocked by libstdc++ ABI stability. Given the history the GCC project | and the amount of work (and the expected benefits) that would arise just | from converting to a simple s

Re: libstdc++ soname and versioning (was: Re: Compiling GCC...)

2005-05-25 Thread Theodore Papadopoulo
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 10:37 +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote: > >>Why? To be honest, I keep harping on this mostly because I think it > >>should happen. All the C++-in-GCC noise is a digression. > [.] > In practice, we have got an handful of bugs unfixable within the > current > ABI (mostly alrea