alt Hacker NewsI'm pretty sure GCC has been ABI stable far longer that MSVC which used to break ABI every release.
GCC was forced to break the std::string ABI by the C++11 standard and they have been lobbing ever since against ABI breaks.
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pjmlp • yesterday at 4:02 PM
You haven't used Windows in a while I imagine.
MSVC has stabilised the ABI since VS 2015, we are on VS 2026 now.
Due to customer pressure to stop doing exactly that, to the point some ISO C and C++ stuff that requires breaking the ABI has not been implemented thus far.
I am quite certain that I will find ABI breaks in GCC release notes since Slackware 2.0, when I used it for the first time.
GCC/libstdc++ just changed the ABI for std::variant: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-16/changes.html#libstdcxx