> I would say most modern code is not the kind of code written with the absurd platform assumptions that old code used to do. That is a pretty bold claim. I wo

> I would say most modern code is not the kind of code written with the absurd platform assumptions that old code used to do. That is a pretty bold claim. I would be surprised if any nontrivial "modern" program would be bug-free on a platform with nonzero NULL, non two's compliment ints, big endian an non IEEE floats. The assumptions we make about the platform just don't feel like assumptions anymore because every machine is the same nowadays.