C++ ABI in LSB 2.0 is broken

Posted Sep 14, 2004 22:12 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: C++ ABI in LSB 2.0 is broken by subhasroy
Parent article: The Open Group & FSG announce LSB 2.0 certification

It's even worse than Joe said. Presently, for LSB conformance, one must use a simultaneously obsolete and unreleased version of G++: specifically, the 3.3 branch CVS HEAD.

This cannot be good.

C++ ABI in LSB 2.0 is broken

Posted Sep 14, 2004 23:10 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

GCC 3.3.5 will be released soon. Even so, what bothers me more than anything is that GCC 3.4 is the first release with a C++ parser that is not an unmaintainable kludge (the result being that hundreds of long-standing C++ parser bugs were fixed in 3.4), and the LSB committee has seen fit to require that 3.3 will have to continue to live indefinitely.

And there's also the disaster that GCC 3.2-based distros are still in wide use, they also have a libstdc++.so.5, and they are incompatible with GCC 3.3.