Re: Compiler ABI changes and XPCOM components

Christian Biesinger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpcom
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Pete Collins wrote:
> Er, the whole point of XPCOM is to abstract binary libs from the 
> interfaces they implement.

There is nothing XPCOM can do about this. Different C++ Compilers mangle 
function names differently, so that a gcc3-compiled Plugin will expect a 
different function name from what actually exists on a gcc2-compiled 
Mozilla.


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