[csw-maintainers] C++ ABIs are fun (not)

Laurent Blume laurent at opencsw.org
Wed Jun 12 20:22:17 CEST 2013


On 2013-06-12 11:40 AM, Laurent Blume wrote:
> On 12/06/13 11:27, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> Wasn't this something you could get from the Linux version of Sun Studio?
> 
> Ah, if talking about g++ ABI compatibility, it is available for Studio
> x86, both Solaris and Linux. Too bad they didn't add it for Sparc.
> 
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24457_01/html/E21991/bkana.html#bkanr

And I've heard that the next Studio is planned to have the g++ ABI
compatibility mode for Solaris sparc as well.

So standardizing on that will make a lot of sense, building with either
Studio or GCC.

The plan to change ABI will be an interesting one to pull up, though.

Laurent



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