Hi Stefan, This is an important issue in Clang and I would like to move on with patch http://reviews.llvm.org/D12834 (also see my last comment there). If you don't mind, I'll get your patch split it into smaller patches and start resolving reviewers comments. Please let me know if you have cycles and would like to keep working on this patch yourself.
Best regards, Dmitry ====== Software Engineer Intel Compiler Teaml -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to llvm-toolchain-3.6 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1488254 Title: clang++ no longer ABI-compatible with g++ Status in LLVM: Confirmed Status in llvm-toolchain-3.6 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: $ cat foo.cc #include <string> std::string hello = "Hello, world!\n"; $ cat bar.cc #include <string> #include <iostream> extern std::string hello; int main() { std::cout << hello; return 0; } $ g++ -c foo.cc && g++ foo.o bar.cc && ./a.out Hello, world! $ clang++ -c foo.cc && clang++ foo.o bar.cc && ./a.out Hello, world! $ g++ -c foo.cc && clang++ foo.o bar.cc && ./a.out /tmp/bar-34fb23.o: In function `main': bar.cc:(.text+0x14): undefined reference to `hello' clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) $ clang++ -c foo.cc && g++ foo.o bar.cc && ./a.out /tmp/ccqU38Mh.o: In function `main': bar.cc:(.text+0x5): undefined reference to `hello[abi:cxx11]' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status In practice, this means that many programs using C++ libraries other than libstdc++ fail to compile with clang++. For example, mosh fails with undefined references to google::protobuf::internal::empty_string_, google::protobuf::MessageLite::InitializationErrorString() const, and google::protobuf::MessageLite::SerializeAsString() const. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/llvm/+bug/1488254/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp