On 09/26/2011 02:34 AM, Charles Wilson wrote:
I note one other comment in the referenced bugzilla thread, where
Paolo mentions that the ABI will break for C++1x (libstdc++7?) anyway,
and that in the "new" string implementation this issue will be not
actually be an issue. Is that 2009 statement still operative?
This for sure, it's impossible to implement the whole C++11 without
breaking the ABI and it's in particular impossible to have a fully
conforming reference counted <string>, we gonna have a new one anyway,
similar to the current <ext/vstring.h>, which can't possibly be affected
by those issues (by the way, the sooner we start testing that kind of
code, the better)
Anyway, about this specific issue I don't think I have much more to say,
sorry. When you make up your mind just let me know, as a maintainer of
the library I have no problems approving for 4.7 changes affecting only
mingw, if the target maintainers ask.
Paolo.
