Re: [Mingw-users] vtables incompatible with visual studio compiler

[Earnie <ea...@us...>]

Roman Wieczorek wrote:
>> which means that future versions
>> of Visual Studio might well be incompatible with it, as well as all other
>> C++ compilers (MinGW, Watcom, Borland...)
> 
> I do not believe Microsoft guys would make things incompatible to them
> self, they used to follow their own history.
> I feel the spirit of MinGW and gcc-cross-compilation is to give an
> alternative, so they probably will not remove to much of
> compatibility.

I think you missed the point.  It isn't Microsoft specific, it is the
nature of C++ specifications such that every new compiler version is
likely to break compatibility of assumptions made in the grey areas of
the specification.

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