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Because you have to be careful to be multiplatform. For example, your code can break if you assume an int is 4 bytes when in your target it's 8 (hard coded valu
by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Because you have to be careful to be multiplatform. For example, your code can break if you assume an int is 4 bytes when in your target it's 8 (hard coded values for pointer arithmetic), or vice versa.
- jcelerier 9y agowell, I and scores of other programmers must be quite lucky because I don't ever remember having to assume or leverage the fact that int or whatever data type was 4 or 8 bytes.