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Subject: Re: Updated: gcc-5.2.0-1 (Test x86/x86_64)
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From: David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 23:20:18 +0100
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On 06/10/15 17:26, Christian Franke wrote:
> cyg Simple wrote:
>> On 9/30/2015 7:36 PM, David Stacey wrote:
>>> On 30/09/15 23:34, JonY wrote:
>>>> On 10/1/2015 00:05, David Stacey wrote:
>>>>> On 30/09/15 12:15, JonY wrote:
>>>>>> gcc-5.2.0-1 has been uploaded for 32bit and 64bit Cygwin.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is the first series of the 5.x releases, and should be 
>>>>>> considered
>>>>>> as experimental as such.
>>>>> Have you managed to work around the ABI change in gcc-5 [1], or will
>>>>> this require a mass rebuild at the point gcc-5 becomes 'current'?
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] -http://developerblog.redhat.com/2015/02/05/gcc5-and-the-c11-abi/
>>>> As far as I know, every gcc release will break C++ ABI, so it would 
>>>> mean
>>>> rebuilding everything C++.
>>> According to the Red Hat blog above, the last time g++ caused an ABI
>>> change was back in the 3.x days, so it hasn't happened for a while. Ah
>>> well, we have maintainers for most packages in Cygwin, so we'll have to
>>> co-ordinate a rebuild.
>> Regardless, JonY is correct.  Every C++ release, regardless of the
>> vendor, causes an ABI break with shared libraries and the naming of the
>> object elements (mangled names).
>
> Probably not in this 4.X -> 5.X case. Otherwise the new 
> cygstdc++-6.dll should IMO be renamed to -6.1, -7 or similar.

Bumping the DLL number wouldn't necessarily fix the problem. You'd still 
run into conflicts if one executable loaded two DLLs, each linked 
against different versions of libstdc++.

Dave.


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