The standard doesn't say it, but from context clues I presume GP meant "the c++ standard [committee] cares..."[1] And they do care deeply - here's a post from

The standard doesn't say it, but from context clues I presume GP meant "the c++ standard [committee] cares..."[1] And they do care deeply - here's a post from a C++ committee member discussing the issue: https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/abi/ https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/abi/ [1] Evidenced by the rest of the post talking about the committee, and referring to people a couple messages up thread: > And yet they can't update the standard library types to not be slow as hell because of ABI concerns. etc.