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aidenn0 on Aug 2, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rust: Not So Great For Codec Implementing

As a counterpoint, PowerPC has at least 3 mutually incompatible ABIs for C.

cryptonector on Aug 2, 2017 [–]

But generally there's only one per-OS, so it's not that bad. C++ ABIs are per-compiler, or worse, per-{compiler, version}, with few exceptions (Windows).

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