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		pjmlp on June 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Diving into GCC Internals It still affects all compiled languages that offer inheritance, and OOP ABIs like COM.

valleyer on June 15, 2022 [–]

Maybe I'm still misunderstanding you, but (modern) Objective-C is an example of a compiled language without the fragile base class ABI problem.

(It pays for this with extra indirection at runtime, of course: ivar accesses must first look up their runtime-resolved offset.)

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