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Re: [std-proposals] The most fair rant on C++

From: Thiago Macieira <thiago_at_[hidden]>
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:27:00 -0800
On Sunday, 23 November 2025 02:51:56 Pacific Standard Time Andrey Semashev via
Std-Proposals wrote:
> On 23 Nov 2025 00:30, Thiago Macieira via Std-Proposals wrote:
> > ABI is currently not part of the Standard.
>
> This is not entirely true. I'm sure you know that proposals and design
> decisions are evaluated with ABI stability in mind, and sometimes
> otherwise valid proposals are rejected (or not written in the first
> place) because they would break ABI.

Indeed, ABI is not officially part of the Standard, but decisions are weighed on
how they do affect ABI.

But that's the point for organicoman: is the proposal to officially include ABI
in the Standard? Or officially ignore and break the world?

This list can discuss such a proposal. But there has been *no* proposal posted
in this thread yet.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
  Principal Engineer - Intel Data Center - Platform & Sys. Eng.

Received on 2025-11-24 01:27:24