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Re: [platform-swt-dev] [ANN] Eclipse SWT/Fox plugin available ( pre-alpha)
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Just to clarify: This is valid for C++ only, C's ABI is stable, because C
functions are not decorated at all.
That's why I mentioned stdc++ not libc.
/Ivan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris McKillop" <cdm@xxxxxxx>
To: <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [platform-swt-dev] [ANN] Eclipse SWT/Fox plugin available (
pre-alpha)
> >
> > >P.S. Users of older Linux distributions (pre gcc 3.2) may encounter
> > >problems running SWT/Fox, because at the moment it is not statically
> > >linked with libc++.
> >
> > I'm curious: why should that be a problem? AFAIK every lib on
> > debian is *not* statically linked...
> >
>
> Because of the C++ ABI changes from 2.9x to 3.0 to 3.1 to 3.2. You can't
> move forward or backward and have compatibility between those versions.
So any
> app/lib/... must be built with exactly the same version. Hopefully past
3.2
> it will remain stable.
>
> chris
>
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