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That's ABI compatibility of the language, not of a particular API.

If you have an API that allows the caller to instantiate a structure on the stack and pass a reference to it to your function, then the caller must now be recompiled when the size of that structure changes. If that API now resides in a separate dynamic library, then changing the size of the structure is an ABI-breaking change, regardless of the language.



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