clipka wrote:
> So much for binary compatibility in the (x86) Linux world...

Isn't that more a C++ thing than a x86 ABI thing? Is it the calling 
conventions to the OS, the stack frame format, or the C++ name mangling and 
structure layout that changed?

> It was only the success of "IBM
> compatible (!) PCs" that started the whole binary compatibility thing anyway.

Nah. CP/M before that, and lots of mainframe stuff before that, SPARC 
stations too, etc.  People have wanted binary compatibility since core 
memory days.

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