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Re:The C++ Lifetime Profile: How It Plans to Make C++ Code S... by paulddraper on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:45PM (#22141762)
The legitimate difference between C and C++ ABIs is that the C ABI is easier to understand and reason about.

It's analogous to Java and Scala; each has an ABI, but it's easier to tell when the former breaks ABI than the latter.

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Re:The C++ Lifetime Profile: How It Plans to Make C++ Code S... by likeliv on Friday January 24, 2020 @05:49PM (#22143139)
That's right. C being more limited, it has a more simplistic ABI. But the parent comment was replying the "need for a stable, standard ABI, which C provide". Which is misleading as both C++ and C have the same level of stability and standardisation of their ABI. (I.e: none of them is standardized, but both of them are stable on practice)
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Re:The C++ Lifetime Profile: How It Plans to Make C++ Code S... by paulddraper on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:22PM (#22143325)
Yep, you're right.

There is a difference, but the difference is in complexity, not availability.

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