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I completely agree with you. That said, I wish code written for gcc v28 didn't have to be binary compatible with C++ that was last compiled in 2008...
by maccard 7mo ago
I completely agree with you.
That said, I wish code written for gcc v28 didn't have to be binary compatible with C++ that was last compiled in 2008...
- PaulDavisThe1st 7mo agoIt isn't.
- maccard 7mo agoAnd yet GCC and MSVC both refuse to break ABI and have done so for over a decade.
- PaulDavisThe1st 7mo agoSome of us have been writing code for quite a bit longer than that. The 2000's and C++ were a clusterfuck largely for this very reason.
- maccard 7mo agoI’ve been writing c++ since before then too. A lot has changed in the world, notably package managers are actually used with c++ these days.
- gpderetta 7mo agoMSVC used to break library ABI pretty much on every release. They stopped after overwhelming customer demand.