[Development] Summary ABI compabilty

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 1:37 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> wrote:
> libstdc++ now has a sub-ABI-version that was already bumped recently for
> better C++11 compliance. It can be bumped again, without even changing the
> soname, and all libraries using the std:: types in their APIs will have a
> broken ABI.

Out of curiosity, why does a ABI break not incur in a soname change?

Cheers,
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Giuseppe D'Angelo