Hi, We have just finished preliminary porting of a product from Tru64 to SuSe Linux 8 (UL 1.0). Unfortunately we ran into a well known "problem" in that the ABI has changed somewhere between gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.2. We make use of a proprietary C++ library which the vendor is only able to supply to us as compiled by gcc-2.95. As it would be a major undertaking for us to move to another database/C only version of their library I was wondering/hoping there are other solutions out there. >From what I can gather from the Changelogs up to gcc-3.2 the facility to generate objects files in the old ABI format (--disable-new-gxx-abi) has been removed from the compiler's source - is there any point in falling back to an older version of gcc and using this to compile our source (and libstdc++) into binaries using the old ABI ? We have had a stab at getting our source to compile with gcc-2.95 but straight away ran into problems in that std::wstring is not available for the libstdc++ shipped with it. We also make heavy use of exceptions & templates in our source and are not sure whether we would get the required level of support in 2.95. Has anyone tried compiling the newer libstdc++ (as shipped with gcc-3.x) with gcc-2.95 ? Any help/suggestions are appreciated. Regards, Nic Groenewald C++ Developer ________________________________________ LogicaCMG Wireless Data Solutions (Africa) (Pty) Limited Physical Address: Block B The Wedgewood Office Park 3 Muswell Road South Bryanston South Africa Postal Address: PO Box 71704 Bryanston 2021 South Africa T: +27 (0)11 463 8515 F: +27 (0)11 463 2596 M: +27 (0)84 449 3205 E: nic.groenewald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx www.logicacmg.com
