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> This only applies for C++, where there is no standard ABI and haven't
> been - _for C, it is binary compatible_.
>
To me, "binary compatibility" has always meant something a little different.
On OS/2, DOS, Windows* one has a choice of C and C++ compilers. Shared
libraries aside, I've never been at all sure I could compile part of a program
with one, part with another and link the results together.
If I could, for example, compile one source file with Turbo C, another with
Quick C and link their object files together, then I'd say they are "binary
compatible."
However, I've never thought this would work.
On Linux I've changed compilers several times (different versions of the gcc
family) and never had a problem. Probably though, I've never done exactly what
I describe above.
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