generic way to access C++ libs?

[Diez B. Roggisch]

> 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?
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch