Hi,
On 06/18/2012 06:01 PM, Michael Matz wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
Jeff, please note that the path that Michael took from what was said
ealier (in particular the quote he provided in his message) and the
conclusion of "enthusiasm for soname bump" is still a mystery.
The quoted part suggested switching std::string to the new format for
c++11 only, on which I read three agreeing answers (one of them
enthusiastic).
Uhmm, actually now I agree that switching to the new std::string for
C++11 only would be very tricky to do, for the usual reasons (it's used
also by <locale>, etc). For C++11, the last week I may have envisaged
switching only the <string> internals, without changing the exports, but
then it would not be able to interoperate with <locale>, thus it would
not lead to a consistent C++11 library. I suppose that for 4.8.0 we
really want to bump the ABI, for many other reasons too, and be done
with it.
Paolo.
