[oi-dev] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Studio future in OI (Re: )

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 10/11/13 06:15 AM, Laurent Blume wrote:
> Too bad that Sun was not there - but as it happens, some actually good standards
> were Not Invented By Sun and yet are useful.

There are mentions of Sun though on the ABI committee page, so it wasn't
completely out of the picture:

http://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/

Solaris Studio 12.3 dropped support for the oldest of the incompatible C++
ABI's, the one left from Sun Workshop 4, which couldn't work for C++98 standard
compliant programs:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24457_01/html/E21986/ossrn.html#gljqx

And has announced future versions will similarly drop support for pre-C++98
libraries:

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24457_01/html/E21986/ossrn.html#gljri

So hopefully the ABI's will continue converging more as time goes on.

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