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> the C compiler You mean C compiler X has the feature of Y. There are lots of compilers and that's not part of the language.

• umanwizard 8y ago
  Their comment makes sense if you interpret "the C compiler" to mean "mainstream C compilers that 99% people use in production" or even just "gcc and clang". We're talking about concrete things in the real world here, not philosophizing about the language spec.
  • PersistentCough 8y ago
    > not philosophizing about the language spec. That's exactly what's going on.
  • Avshalom 8y ago
    And yet small device C and Gcc/clang are onky kissing cousins and we (well people that aren't me: ustedes) still rhetorically lump them together as a single language.
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