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		gaius on May 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why should I have written ZeroMQ in C, not C++ Not C++ compilers tho' - the issue is not the ABI, it's the name mangling. Tho' I believe Clang and GCC have decided to use the same convention, ICC might not have (and that by all accounts is a great compiler).

el_presidente on May 11, 2012 [–]

http://sourcery.mentor.com/public/cxx-abi/abi.html#mangling

I'm 99% sure that ICC is compatible with GCC.

vetinari on May 12, 2012 | [–]

When the switch between GCC 2.x and 3.0 happened, the big new thing was 'industry standard' C++ ABI (called Itanium ABI, as el_presidente mentioned).

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