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Subject: Re: libstdc++ soname and versioning
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Theodore Papadopoulo wrote:

>The real problem I think is not really casting an ABI in stone, but
>merely to have "some stability" over time. Maybe the only thing that is
>missing is a "commitment" of the C++ library ABI stable over a few (two,
>three ?) major gcc releases as there is one for the core compiler (and
>remember it took several releases to achieve it)...
>  
>
Just a quick comment: this is *already* happening, no doubts. We have v6
since 3.4.0...

Paolo.