Re: On the cost of libraries

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 11:24, Colm Smyth wrote:
> Binary compatibility is an important goal, but with C++ it's effectively
> impossible; the name-mangling format changes not infrequently, vtable dispatch
> is also subject to change.  The upshot is that the ABI of a C++ library can
> change between minor version updates so the usage scenario I described is
> applicable only when you are targetting a well-known C++ ABI.

You mean 'between minor version updates' of the compiler, right? The ABI
of a C++ library should not change between minor version updates of that
library.

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