ABI Stability

Rob and Jason are joined by Marshall Clow. They first discuss some bugs Microsoft found using ASAN in open source projects, and new libraries. Then they talk to Marshall Clow, longtime maintainer of libc++, on his perspective on the C++ ABI, and why stability is important.

News

• Finding Bugs with AddressSanitizer: Patterns from Open Source Projects
• RmlUI 4.0 Release
• Not Enough Standards, my C++17/20 library for cross-platform utilities
• Meeting C++ 2021 Announced

Links

• What is an ABI, and Why is Breaking it Bad? - Marshall Clow - CppCon 2020

Sponsors

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