Re: Selecting a C++ compiler

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 08:38:55PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
>   1) Is the C ABI/runtime stable enough that we can reasonably build C
>   programs with the base system gcc, and use something else for C++?  Or
>   do we have to move to one version always?  Consider things like geos
>   which are implemented in C++ but provide C libraries.

libgcc_s is quite likely to create problems when downgrading, i.e.
mixing binaries compiled with different version where the main binary is
using the older version.

Joerg