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C is not a "portable assembler". An assembly language program specifies a series of CPU instructions. A C program specifies runtime behavior. That's a huge s

by _kst_ 3y ago

C is not a "portable assembler". An assembly language program specifies a series of CPU instructions. A C program specifies runtime behavior. That's a huge semantic difference.

mpweiher 3y ago
"Committee did not want to force programmers into writing portably, to preclude the use of C as a “high-level assembler:” https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n897.pdf https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n897.pdf p10, line 39 "C code can be portable. " line 30