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Re:A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ by pjmlp on Sunday December 06, 2020 @02:01AM (#25321722)
That is an UNIX problem, not every OS uses C as the OS ABI, e.g. Android, Windows, IBM i, z/OS, ...

Also given the target domain of C, the standard also must take into account possible free standing deployments, where an OS doesn't even come into play.

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Re:A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ by colejohnson66 on Sunday December 06, 2020 @09:04PM (#25328674)
I thought Windows does use C as an ABI?
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Re:A Special Kind of Hell: intmax_t in C and C++ by pjmlp on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:35AM (#25331544)
Nope, the calling conventions are selectable, originally on the 16 bit days actually used Pascal calling convention, then with age there are several APIs whose public API is only available as either COM, .NET or both, regardless how the interface with the kernel is done.
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