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Re:C++ is a hack by lallysingh on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:00PM (#11111253)
Some of these aren't quite true anymore. There's a C++ x64 ABI, for example.

Still, it's all a big mess.

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Re:C++ is a hack by angelbob on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @12:37PM (#11111591)
Did they finally get templates shoehorned into it? That's been the giant, glaring flaw in all the previous ABI attempts I've seen.

Well, that and getting multiple compilers to use the same name-mangling standards.

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