[cxx-abi-dev] C++0x POD

Jason Merrill jason at redhat.com
Wed Jul 15 21:34:18 UTC 2009


On 07/15/2009 11:29 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> That was the passage I remembered; it was something about using bitwise
> copying.  IIRC, Matt Austern was the one who made the observation that
> the standard prevented the use of tail padding.  I wonder if something
> changed in the standard after we drafted those words?

Looks like the "other than a base class subobject" words were added by 
the resolution for core issue 43.  So it was an issue for C++98, but we 
didn't actually need to make the change for TC1.

Jason



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