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@Kris: Well duuuh! If you write an own runtime, you don't need any runtime library. But you still need something. If you don't write, you just use one supplied with the compiler, and that won't make your language of choice (let it be Obj-C, C++ or anything) 'managed'.

@Kris: Can you create a C++ program that has new/delete (part of the core language, not the library) without linking any runtime libraries? I don't think so..

@Charles: I believe the exact same can be told about C/C++: the language requires not just a compiler, but also a runtime system to execute the compiled code, it is just called the C runtime. Possibility to link the runtime into the executable is just a slight difference. So by your logic, VC11 generated code is managed as well, because of CRT..

Is there a list somewhere what bug fixes / changes are there compared to RC?

How this vectorization handling alignment problems? What happens if I have an array not aligned to 16 bytes, can it still create some code to use SSE?