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This. I don't understand why everyone must suffer the pain of the possibility of weird char widths instead of just settling on using a non-standard C in a bunch
by lultimouomo 6y ago
This. I don't understand why everyone must suffer the pain of the possibility of weird char widths instead of just settling on using a non-standard C in a bunch of DSPs. It's not like you're going to link a bunch of regular run of the mill C libraries on them anyway.
- not_knuth 6y agoIsn't this an artifact of the age of C? When it was first created it was a major concern to support every architecture, so they put it in the standard. I don't think anyone has wanted to go through the pain of removing it ever since. After all, who are language nerds to dictate chip manufacturers what the ISA should look like? :P And it was only in the last 2 decades that everything got dominated by x86...
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