Warning, ABI breakage from 2.074 to 2.075
Ola Fosheim Grostad via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 26 07:13:07 PDT 2017
On Friday, 26 May 2017 at 13:23:20 UTC, Jason King wrote:
> wanted to fix a problem with the underlying system. Trying to
> build
> something on top of an unstable ABI is building your
> foundations on sand.
>
> All I’m saying is if no attention is going to be paid to this
> (it doesn’t mean you can’t change the ABI, but it needs to be
> managed it better than ‘whoops!’), just stop claiming the
> systems bit and stay up stack where this isn’t a problem.
There is some truth to this as BeOS used C++, and ABI was a
concern, but it really depends on the context. D has a too big
runtime and too many runtime dependent features to be classified
as a low level language anyway, though...
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