Re: Higher level languages as part of the core of SVN

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 11:16:34PM -0700, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On 10/28/06, Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-svn-dev@farside.org.uk> wrote:
> >I meant binary compatibility. My understanding from speaking to Dan
> >earlier was that g++/win32 follows the vendor-defined ABI (that is,
> >MSVC on Win32) for C++, so we should be okay as long as we don't expose
> >anything to do with an STL implementation.
>
> Messages on the GCC list earlier this year from Mark Mitchell hints
> that there is no ABI compatibility between MSVC and g++ and won't be
> any time soon:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2006-06/msg00911.html
>

Interesting. That's in direct opposition to what I thought Dan was
saying when we discussed this at the summit. Dan: did I misunderstand?

Regards,
Malcolm