Re: Compiler ABI changes and XPCOM components
John Bandhauer <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xpcom |
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| Organization | minions of mozilla |
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Axel Hecht wrote: > IIRC, we went thru some pain to make vtables of XPCOM independent of the > compiler. > > Wasn't that the stuff with xptcall? This is really from the very back of > my head, but nevertheless. No, not at all. The goal of xptcall is to match whatever the compiler on the given 'platform' does with respect to calling virtual methods. xptcall is not about being independent of the compiler. FWIW, My (3 year old) thoughts on this entire ABI issue: news://news.mozilla.org/[email protected] The short version is that I (still) think some set of interested parties need to get organized and define standards for the various 'platforms' rather that everybody just building how they like to build and leaving everyone else adrift. John.