[cfe-dev] clang, g++, icc link compatibity?

[David Blaikie]

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:08 PM, C Bergström <cbergstrom at pathscale.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Christian Convey
> <christian.convey at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks David.  So it sounds like you're saying that all the previously
> messy
> > stuff like vtable layouts, exception handling, etc. are non-issues for
> > current versions of those three compilers.  Is that right?
>
> David's reply is very very misleading -
>
> You're not only dealing with potential incompatibilities at the ABI
> level. There is also the STL that can play a role.
>

Sure enough, thanks for the clarification.


> Is clang using the system STL or libc++? (I think libc++ does play
> nice with GNU STL in some circumstances, but not all afaik)
>

Clang is designed to find the same STL as any locally installed GCC
(obviously if you use some non-default GCC (if you have multiple versions
installed, etc) or force the use of libc++ that'll get more interesting).


> If all 3 compilers are on the same page with the ABI, using the same
> EH, the same STL and same runtime - yes in theory, barring things I
> can't think right now - it should work.
>
> So double check which runtime/STL ICC is relying on.
>

*nod*
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