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		rurban on March 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: To save C, we must save ABI The binary standard is defined in the gABI. They are independent. I want to fix something in it, so I need to fix C++, C, and the gABI. Three separate processes, each needing about 3 years, though C and C++ are aligned now.

JonChesterfield on March 13, 2022 [–]

Probably worth checking that the compiler alias implementations do sane things when the function has a different calling convention to the default (due to some attribute on it)

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