alt Hacker Newsisn't the whole point of C that it's portable assembly though? needing to understand the target platform/compiler's behavior to write correct code seems to cut against that claim quite a bit.
isn't the whole point of C that it's portable assembly though? needing to understand the target platform/compiler's behavior to write correct code seems to cut against that claim quite a bit.
No. What gives that idea? The language doesn't even fix the data size of its primary numerical type. No way anyone thought that was portable.