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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by umanwizard on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @04:50PM (#18125581)
There is not really any such thing as "the" C ABI -- different platforms have totally different conventions, even on the same instruction set.
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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by jdub on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:57PM (#18126664)
It's shorthand for "the ABI relevant to the current context", which is entirely reasonable.
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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by umanwizard on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @11:50AM (#18131439)
It wasn't at all clear to me from the post I responded to that this is what the poster meant, or that they knew the fact I was stating.
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Re:Should you learn C to “learn how the computer works”? by saagarjha on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:18PM (#18125796)
I'm assuming "the" C ABI probably means System V.
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