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> it is not a portable assembler And it never was! Just keeping this point in mind would reduce the plethora of discussions about undefined behaviour to the e
by pif 3y ago
> it is not a portable assembler
And it never was!
Just keeping this point in mind would reduce the plethora of discussions about undefined behaviour to the essential, i.e. the useful discussions, i.e. the 0.1%.
- JonChesterfield 3y agoOpinion is divided on this. My best guess is that ISO C was never a portable assembler, but the C programming language before standardisation broadly was, and that's how people hold both positions as self evidently true. Different definition of "C".
- pif 3y agoProgrammers are supposed to trust official interfaces rather than undocumented implementation details ;-P