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by chimeracoder 4473 days ago
> Try that on Linux or OSX.

On OS X that would certainly fail (even much software that's between 5-10 years old would fail) this test.

But Linux provides a very stable ABI.

20-year backwards compatibility might be stretching it for Linux, since it's only around 20 years old to begin with. But if you have (e.g.) a statically linked Debian binary from the late 1990s, I'd bet almost anything it would still work on your desktop today.