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> The word "portable" means a subset of everything possible. Exactly; for example, C has single precision and double double precision floating point, 64 bit ty
by foxfluff 5y ago
> The word "portable" means a subset of everything possible.
Exactly; for example, C has single precision and double double precision floating point, 64 bit types, and complex arithmetic because every CPU architecture has those built-in.
- nec4b 5y agoNo, but those things can be easily emulated on every hardware or simply not used. One more reason to use C instead of plain assembly.