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		phkamp on Dec 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ISO C is increasingly moronic Too bad it is not part of the ABI specification on any known platform, so if you call a library function compiled without this magic compiler you're totally screwed. But an interesting research project, I'll grant you that.

mikeash on Dec 20, 2011 [–]

There's a section in that link which details how they handle calls to libraries that aren't aware of what's going on. Sounds like it works just fine.

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