On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, David O'Brien wrote: > > These are good questions, and I don't know enough yet about the issues > > surrounding vtable thunks to answer them. > > I haven't had time to really dig into this yet. Hopefully Saturday. I'm > about to revert the change until I can see what the problem is and what > the upgrade issues will be. EGCS 1.2 *should* be out in the July/Aug > time frame. Of course I will try to upgrade us to it (well 1.2.1 which I > figure will quickly follow). The EGCS maintainers are pushing to get > vtable thunks working properly for 1.2. > > Since the Linux config files specify DEFALUT_VTABLE_THUNKS=1, no one has > posted a bug report related to them, there is an option to turn them off, > and this *is* -CURRENT. I may just leave them turned on by default. > > Opinions?
I would prefer to keep vtable thunks turned on. The alternative produces wretched code for multiple inheritance. Personally, I want -fnew-abi too; gcc does some disgusting things with multiple zero-sized base classes without it... -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
