Yep, that's why you would have had a "fixed-C" compiler with an explicit u24 and "portability", if it has any meaning here, would have to be done at the user pr

Yep, that's why you would have had a "fixed-C" compiler with an explicit u24 and "portability", if it has any meaning here, would have to be done at the user program level. The C committee is just adding stuff, to make even a naive C compiler more and more costly, which kills many "real life" alternatives, and in the end, does promote planned obsolescence more than anything else. We have to remove stuff from C, not add stuff to C, make things more explicit and not more implicit (the abomination of the integer promotion...). The stdlib has nothing to do in the C syntax even though not having memcpy and co internal to the compiler feels really meh on modern CPU.