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> OS ABIs aren't independent of the language. I'd push back on this a bit. The ABI is "put the arguments on the stack this way and jump to this address". The f
by bigfishrunning 2mo ago
> OS ABIs aren't independent of the language.
I'd push back on this a bit. The ABI is "put the arguments on the stack this way and jump to this address". The fact that it's easy to do in C doesn't really make a difference, or make that process "C specific" at all, any other language would need to do the same thing.
If you require those arguments to represent rust objects or be reference-counted in some way, it would impose more restrictions on the caller, not fewer.
- flohofwoe 2mo agoRust basically would need to specify the interior memory layout of basic types like Result or Option. But to be pedantic, not even C has a standardized memory layout for structs, only some accidential common conventions that work for some types but not others