https://wiki.accu.org/ 2026-05-07T13:08:38+00:00 https://wiki.accu.org/ https://wiki.accu.org/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki-128.png text/html 2016-06-11T14:05:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.accu.org/doku.php?id=2015:2015:what_s_an_abi_and_why_is_it_so_complicated&rev=1465653937&do=diff Back to 2015-proposals Title: What's an ABI and why is it so complicated? Proposer: Jonathan Wakely Type: Tutorial Duration: 90 mins Description: The Application Binary Interface (ABI) for software written in C++ is much more complicated than the equivalent for C. In addition to obvious properties of the architecture such as instruction set and calling conventions, and details of how standard library types are defined, a C++ compiler has to care about details such as how name mangling, …