[cfe-dev] Does clang now emit [abi:cxx11] unconditionally when used with libstdc++?

[Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev]

+Renato who understands this stuff (I don't).

On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Maria Gottschalk via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> Hmm. Yes, I'm refering to this gcc abi tag stuff. My question actually was how to disable this support in clang. With gcc the default (old/new abi) ist a build-time option. And one can also switch at compile time with a macro: -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0/1.
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> Existing LTS distributions like RHEL stick to the old abi, of course, when they offer newer gcc's as an add-on. Otherwise, you could not link to any C++ system libraries.
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> So, is it correct that clang-3.9.0 unconditionally compiles for the new abi? That gcc 4.x.y is no longer usable and that you must have gcc 5+ if you want to use libstdc++?
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> That would be real bad.
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> Thanks,
> M.
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> Andrey Bokhanko <andreybokhanko at gmail.com> schrieb am 14:04 Montag, 15.August 2016:
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> Hi Maria,
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> Are you referring to "__attribute ((abi_tag)" support? If yes, it is enabled by default, no need for special options.
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> You can use libstdc++ without additional options as well.
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> Yours,
> Andrey
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> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 5:27 AM, Maria Gottschalk via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> Or do we have an option to select whether clang++ compiles for the old or the new abi?
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>>Thanks, M.
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