"Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Well... based on Paolo's reply, that's quite concerning. Does this > mean that distros need to provide two compiled versions of libstdc++ > and the compiler wrapper will need to select the proper one to link > against based on whether --std=c++0x was used or not? This could have > major ripple effects as well, as various other C++ libraries (Boost, > etc) will have to be compiled in both modes as well. Yes, I think there is a serious issue here. There are various forces pushing toward breaking the libstdc++ ABI. I do not know what the libstdc++ maintainer's plans are. Ian