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Re: [std-proposals] Give Microsoft N years to change their ABI

From: Thiago Macieira <thiago_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:19:29 -0800
On Wednesday 20 November 2024 14:19:07 Pacific Standard Time Frederick
Virchanza Gotham via Std-Proposals wrote:
> And people like me want it for doing debugging and also for
> manipulating the objects returned from proprietary 3rd party libraries
> (i.e. changing the VTable to intercept method calls).

Debugging is a toolchain issue. As we've discussed before, there are tools to
achieve this when debugging that don't require a language change and thus have
a much, much lower barrier of acceptance.

Mucking with code that the author didn't want you to muck is not something we
should encourage either.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
  Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Platform & System Engineering

Received on 2024-11-20 23:19:37