On Sat, 10 Nov 2012, Jason Merrill wrote:
As mentioned in http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Cxx11AbiCompatibility, C++11 changes the return type of complex::real and imag, leading to a binary incompatibility between C++98 and C++11 code if the functions are used without inlining. This patch adds an ABI tag to the C++11 variants so that they have different mangled names. This does not change the exports from libstdc++.
It looks like it won't prevent from using ref-qualifiers when they are implemented if we want to (PR 51013), which is good.
For the map void->iterator change, I think it would make sense to just unconditionally return an iterator;
It does break C++98 code that does "return f();" in a function returning void, but that's negligible.
there's no binary compatibility issue with older code that expects it to return void, the problem is only with C++11 code calling a C++98 instantiation that returns void.
That's going to happen in practice, isn't it? So do you mean to add the abi tag to this unified function, for safety?
-- Marc Glisse
