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"Turns out the object files produced by the CoreRT ahead of time compiler from 2020 can still be linked with the linker that shipped with Visual C++ 2.0 in 1994
by protastus 7y ago
"Turns out the object files produced by the CoreRT ahead of time compiler from 2020 can still be linked with the linker that shipped with Visual C++ 2.0 in 1994."
This really blew my mind.
- gambiting 7y agoYeah, for all the shit that Microsoft gets, their backwards compatibility efforts are extraordinary. I work in games and we recently dug out a project from 1998, last built using Visual Studio 5, and everything just compiled, linked and ran using Visual Studio 2019 with some extremely minor changes in project config.