>The answer here seems to be that since we build Solaris with >two compilers, stdio and (optionally)gcc, we could choose >to ship C++ libs like this compiled w/ each one of these >compilers. > >The ABI of the libraries would/could change everytime >we rev'd the compilers - but we don't do that except >in a minor release.
We should also make clear that Sun's compilers do better when it comes to an ABI guarantee (we had far fewer changes and compatibility options over the last 10 years than g++ did) Casper
