>>C++98 code out of GCC has also been ABI stable for over 10 years now btw I was specifically picking on Visual Studio and vendors who decided to distribute C+

>>C++98 code out of GCC has also been ABI stable for over 10 years now btw I was specifically picking on Visual Studio and vendors who decided to distribute C++ dlls. Sometimes they provide several versions depending on which Visual Studio version you have installed at the moment.