libstdc++-v3 stability?

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Tue Feb 12 11:17:00 GMT 2002



--On Friday, February 08, 2002 12:17 PM -0800 Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.COM> 
wrote:

> Ben writes:
>> I just got asked this question [about ABI stability] by Red Hat,
>> yesterday.

I think Benjamin's plan is the right one: break the library ABI only
between major releases of GCC.  Obviously, at some point, we'd like to
go a step further and stop breaking the library ABI, but that won't be
easy for a while.  I know symbol versioning should help.

Thanks,

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