Hi, sorry if the issue is already well known, but it's so serious that I decided to post an heads up: today (not yesterday), the ABI is broken, the size of many symbols exported by libstdc++ changed, see eg:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2009-10/msg02895.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2009-10/msg02903.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2009-10/msg02904.html I'm adding below some of the many error messages spilled by abi_check. I *strongly* suspect: 2009-10-28 Jerry Quinn <jlqu...@optonline.net> * mangle.c (mangle_type_string_for_rtti): Revert r149964. (needs_fake_anon): Likewise. (write_name): Likewise. (write_nested_name): Likewise. * cp-tree.h (mangle_type_string_for_rtti): Likewise. (get_anonymous_namespace): Likewise. * name-lookup.c (get_anonymous_namespace_name): Likewise. * rtti.c (tinfo_name): Insert '*' in front of private names. (tinfo_base_init): Use it. 2009-10-28 Jerry Quinn <jlqu...@optonline.net> * libsupc++/tinfo.cc (operator=(const type_info&)): Compare by pointer if name begins with '*'. * libsupc++/typeinfo (type_info::name()): Likewise. * libsupc++/tinfo2.cc (before): Likewise. Please provide feedback ASAP. 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