Re: Next C++ transition
Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:
>> I don't think this will work in general because a DSO might expose the
>> layout of objects provided by the standard library in its public
>> interface. That's part of the reason why I think that symbol
>> versioning is way overrated in some circles. 8-)
>>
>> However, if the library just exports a C API, it should be okay.
>
> Not only this, but in fact, the layout of nearly every object exposed
> by the standard library hasn't changed. So in practice, I expect it to
> work :)
Aha!
Well, there *might* be a problem with reference count handling for
std::string -- it handles the rep object for the empty string
separately, by explicitly checking its address. With to copies of
libstdc++, we end up with two empty string reps, with different
addresses.
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