10 Dec
2002
10 Dec
'02
10:11 a.m.
The argument against c++ has been a constantly changing
ABI, but with
the release of GCC 3.2 it finally looks like G++ will have a stable API.
time will tell i guess.
i have my doubts about this. with the flexibility that c++
compile-time flags provide, i'm not sure one can ever talk about "a
stable ABI" for c++ code, even if the compiler itself never changes
it. when used with a dynamic (run-time) linker, things go wrong very
quickly unless all the binaries are known to be compiled "identically".
--p