Carlo Wood wrote:
3. User programs compiled for platform A, and linking with a shared versions of this library - do not need to be able to run on platform B (with same architecture) without recompilation.
I don't see any benefit in allowing any kind of binary portability. Actually - I think that this is rather trivial issue as I think that most of boost already enforces this. It would restrict the design enormously and put unneccessary strain on the efficiency of the implementation to maintain an ABI interface for this library. Just added this topic to make this clear once and for all ;).
What do you mean by 'platform' and what do you mean by 'architecture'? Is this non-guarantee different from the usual non-guarantee of different compilers being binary incompatible? Aaron W. LaFramboise