generic way to access C++ libs?

[Jacek Generowicz]

"Diez B. Roggisch" <deetsNOSPAM at web.de> writes:

> > There's a C++ ABI standard on Linux now (maybe it covers other Unixish
> > platforms too). GCC-3.x supports it and also the Intel compiler supports
> > it. That's how you can now use (link) libraries compiled with some gcc-3.x
> > compiler to a program compiled with Intel's compilers or vice versa.
> > 
> > Though, some of the early gcc-3.0 compilers may not be 100% C++ ABI
> > compliant. There were some bugs there.
> 
> Interesting to hear that they work on these shortcomings of c++. From what
> google told me, it looks as if this stuff is defined for Itanium processors
> only - do you know if its also used for x86 systems?

Yes, I use it in GCC on x86, G4 and G5. It should work wherever GCC
works.