If you are going to argue that, then you need to look again at the headlined item, where it was not the case that it behaved the same on every possible platform

If you are going to argue that, then you need to look again at the headlined item, where it was not the case that it behaved the same on every possible platform. It is a non-standard mechanism of one compiler, that was picked based upon a compromise decision about what versions even of that one compiler it would actually work with.