Luckily, this has already been proposed: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4028.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/20

Luckily, this has already been proposed: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n4028.pdf http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2014/n402... I really hope it makes it into the language. A stable API for external functions and whatever ABI you want for internal functions.