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Re:FlexBuffers by gpderetta on Sunday June 21, 2020 @06:19AM (#23591135)
> matching C++ name mangling conventions

> matching C++ function calling conventions

> matching C++ virtual function table layout for single inheritance

Basically COM? Which is not surprising as it was designed as an OO native FFI.

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Re:FlexBuffers by pjmlp on Sunday June 21, 2020 @06:24AM (#23591155)
And UWP improves on it, giving more C++ features across the ABI, basically what .NET v1.0 should have been all along.
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