[OpenIndiana-discuss] use cases of Sun Studio-compiled C++ libraries on OI

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

Wouldn't this break the binary compatibility guarantee that Solaris had
been traditionally marketed on?

I'm no kernel engineer, so I wouldn't know.

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- Alex Smith
- Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area USA

On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Alan Coopersmith <
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 11/28/14 06:25 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:
>
>> If it’s C++, the name mangling is different; look up the options for the
>> Sun
>>
> > and GNU versions of nm respectively, use each version of nm with its
> > demangling option, and whichever has sensible output corresponds to the
> > compiler used.
>
> Even with Studio, there are now at least 7 different binary incompatible
> options for building C++ code:
>
>  -compat=4 - pre-C++98 SunPro 4.x compiler ABI (only in Studio 12.2 &
> older)
>  -compat=5 (aka -std=sun03) - C++03 Sun compiler ABI
>  -compat=g (aka -std=c++03) - C++03 with g++ extensions/ABI
>  -std=c++11 - C++11 features & g++ library/ABI (only in Studio 12.4 &
> later)
>  -library=Cstd - C++03 with Studio libCstd library
>  -library=stdcxx4 - C++03 with Apache stdcxx library
>  -library=stlport4 - C++03 with STLport library
>
> As you'll see in the CC man page, all C++ code in a program must use the
> same -compat, -std, & -library flags - you can't use a library built with
> different ones than the program itself uses.
>
>         -alan-
>
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