On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 12:35:02PM +0200, Marc Glisse wrote:
> >>>It's an ABI change for all modes (but not a SONAME change because the
> >>>old and new definitions will both be present in the .so).
> >>
> >>Ugh. That's going to be a nightmare to support.
>
> Yes. And IMO a waste of effort compared to a clean .so.7 break, but well...
A clean .so.7 break would be significantly worse nightmare. We've been
there many years ago, e.g. 3.2/3.3 vs. 3.4, there has been significantly
fewer C++ plugins etc. in packages and it still it was unsolvable.
With the abi_tag stuff, you have the option to make stuff interoperable
when mixing compiler, either with no effort at all, or some limited
effort. With .so.7, you have no option, nothing will be interoperable.
Jakub
