Re: Linux vs. libio

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

>>>>> "Ulrich\" == Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:

    Ulrich\> Wait a minute, why do you think you can change libio?  If

Because it's under the GPL? :-) :-) :-)

Please don't get territorial.  I'm not about to go releasing some
weird forked version of anything.  I asked you for help because I know
you're the expert.

I'm just doing work.  You can always choose to accept or reject any
changes in the end; that's your privilege as libio maintainer.

    Ulrich\> something has to be behave different there must be a
    Ulrich\> different solution found.  You are not with the compiler,

There *is* going to be a new C++ ABI.  We're all agreed on that, and
we're agreed on what it will be.  It's not some whim of mine; it's an
industry-standard cross-OS ABI.

The libio tricks whereby there are C versions of C++ objects (complete
with vtables, etc.) will still work, but the objects are going to have
to be laid out differently, because the C++ objects are being laid out
differently.

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