Re: [boost] Re: Compiler status for GCC 3.3

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-07-04 19:37:37

At 02:44 AM 7/3/2003, Giovanni Bajo wrote:

 >On Friday, July 04, 2003 12:38 AM [GMT+1=CET],
 >David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
 >
 >>> On the other hand if your native compiler is GCC and your system was
 >>> not configured with that setting, then you may get into trouble --
 >>> since you'll be mixing translation units with different ABIs.
 >>
 >> Furthermore, that sounds like a workaround.  Isn't it still a
 >> compiler bug that it doesn't work without -fabi-version=0?
 >
 >No, it's correctly fixed, but since it's a fix that breaks ABI,  the
 >version number was bumbed. By default, GCC 3.3 uses the GCC 3.2 ABI.
 >If you want to
 >activate the new version, you have to explicitally say so.
 >"-fabi-version=0" always selects the last version of the ABI.

So are you are saying we should add "-fabi-version=0"?

Will that have a negative impact on other platforms? Should it be added 
only if running on Win32?

--Beman