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Depends on the cpu specific, and a lot of non-x86 designs made it explicit that memory is not byte addressable without special steps. This makes those architec
by p_l 5y ago
Depends on the cpu specific, and a lot of non-x86 designs made it explicit that memory is not byte addressable without special steps.
This makes those architectures incompatible with latest C and C++ though, because they require simultaneous, concurrent, atomic access to bytes at a time
- bodhiandphysics 5y agoThe most important non x86 arch is aarch64 which is in fact byte addressable (more so than x86)! So is mips64.
- bodhiandphysics 5y agoUsing c on a word machine is just a bad idea.