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are they ABIs free or are they patented? I seriously don't know but that would be a sound reason.
by froh 4y ago
are they ABIs free or are they patented? I seriously don't know but that would be a sound reason.
- gpderetta 4y agoIIRC there were patents around structured exceptions which made it hard to implement the WIN32 ABI. Not sure about the 64bit ABI.
- dataflow 4y agoThat would be a sound reason for the things that were patented, but even the non-patented stuff didn't enjoy compatibility. w.r.t. patents, the only thing I've heard of having been patented is SEH (by Borland, presumably after seeing GCC wasn't implementing the then-patent-less SEH), and even that I'm not sure about the relevance of. (I saw it in the context of WINE, which has to implement the OS-side of it, not the compiler side.)