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Zimmerman: We’ve packaged all of the free software…what now?

Zimmerman: We’ve packaged all of the free software…what now?

Posted Jul 8, 2010 11:35 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183)
In reply to: Zimmerman: We’ve packaged all of the free software…what now? by nlucas
Parent article: Zimmerman: We’ve packaged all of the free software…what now?

> And the current C++ ABI stability plays a big part in that, contrary to the hell it was earlier (and worst on Windows because there were more than one mainstream compiler).

I thought that Windows people used COM for ABI because it is well defined.


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Zimmerman: We’ve packaged all of the free software…what now?

Posted Jul 8, 2010 15:25 UTC (Thu) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793) [Link]

COM has nothing to do with C++ objects, although there are Microsoft C++ extensions to the language to make it easy to work with it inside C++.
You can use COM in a pure C program.

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