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Re:Best aspects of C by pavlov on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @10:59AM (#25125260)
> the "C" ABI is just the ABI of whatever platform it's running on

But typically the C ABI is the only stable ABI those platforms provide. That's a huge benefit.

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Re:Best aspects of C by brandmeyer on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @11:54AM (#25126009)
Apple's custom AArch64 ABI has entered the chat...

https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2020/11/02/will-...

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/writing_arm6...

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Re:Best aspects of C by setpatchaddress on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:53PM (#25127952)
"platform", not "ISA". Windows on Intel doesn't use the same ABI as linux.
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Re:Best aspects of C by StillBored on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:37PM (#25128583)
Windows doesn't even have a single calling convention...

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/argument-passing-an...

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Re:Best aspects of C by will4274 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:24PM (#25132109)
You mean 32 bit Windows. 64 bit Windows only has one calling convention.
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Re:Best aspects of C by jcelerier on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:18PM (#25129986)
and that is without counting Cygwin which IIRC uses another calling convention
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