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They were that flexible because you'd compile ONE program ONCE for (any ported) platform and that was that. It took a little while, but eventually C got https:
by mjevans 9y ago
They were that flexible because you'd compile ONE program ONCE for (any ported) platform and that was that.
It took a little while, but eventually C got https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/stdint.h https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/stdint.h (in C99 :( ).
- pjmlp 9y ago> They were that flexible because you'd compile ONE program ONCE for (any ported) platform and that was that. If it was ever so simple, specially given UB and compiler specific semantics across all those compilers and operating systems on the 90's (before C was hardly relevant outside UNIX).