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		cesarb on March 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The joy of max() Actually, Linux nowadays uses the Itanium C++ ABI (even on non-IA64 architectures), and AFAIK it was created by Intel, not GCC.

gmueckl on March 31, 2018 [–]

I stand corrected. Indeed, the Itanium ABI defined by Intel is the base.

The important part is that it is used by most, if not all, C++ compilers on that platform.

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