gcc & glibc & ABI compatibility - latest update

Hi,

I am contemplating building the rhel5 version of our application using the SunStudio 12 compiler. We have a very large C/C++ application and the catch is that we don't have the source for a number of big 3rd commercial C++ libraries that we need to link against. These libs are built on rhel4 using gcc.

What is the story with g++ and SunStudio 12 ABI compatibility ?

August last year there was a thread that discussed this and the recommendation was not to even try as the ABI was not compatible at the C++ level (C was OK). Ref : http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=855&threadID=5105358

Of course I could just suck it and see, but I would like to know if it is even worth trying.

Thanks for any info.

- Mark

[772 byte] By [petrosysa] at [2007-11-27 10:28:59]