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In practice all of the compilers have arrived at a common ABI for each platform.

• deleted 13y ago
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• HNLogInShit 13y ago
  Wow, so we could now truly have "off-the-shelf" objects, which was going to be the future of software development in the '90s but never materialized?
• bstamour 13y ago
  Technically C doesn't have a standard ABI either. Compilers just tend to use similar symbol names.
  • pjmlp 13y ago
    True, what many perceive as the C ABI is actually the OS ABI. As most OSs tend to be written mostly in C, it is natural that C ABI == OS ABI. In the few cases where the OS was written in other languages, like the mainframe systems, the early 80's OS done in Pascal dialects (Mac OS), Modula-2 (Lillith), Assembly (MS-DOS/CP-M) and many others to list here, there was no C ABI to speak of.
• apaprocki 13y ago
  That isn't true. IBM and Oracle's compiler do not share a compatible ABI with g++ or clang. Oracle is adopting the common ABI in Studio 13 and that's a pretty big deal.