On 9/7/2011 5:21 AM, Michel Fortin wrote:
On 2011-09-06 18:00:36 +0000, Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> said:
The winner with binary compatibility is, far and away, Microsoft.
Indeed, I think you're right that they are better than Apple. But you have to
keep in mind that DMD doesn't depend on Microsoft's linker, and doesn't depend
on Microsoft's C runtime. I bet you'd see more breakages otherwise.
I used to know people who worked in Microsoft's "app compat" department. The
lengths they would go to to maintain support for older apps was amazing. It
wasn't about just supporting documented behavior, it was supporting undocumented
behavior and gross misuse of the APIs.
