On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 at 21:52:23 +0200 Ruediger Meier <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 24 July 2017, Joachim Fahrner wrote: >> Am 2017-07-24 20:34, schrieb Hendrik Boom: >>> How much source code actually cares whether pointers are 32 or 64 >>> bits? >> >> Clean written code should not care about pointers or integers are 32 >> or 64 bit or byte order. Code written in a higher language should run >> on any hardware, otherwise I call it "defect". > > In theory you may have right but in practice I guess most currently used > code would not run correctly on 16bit machines. > > In practice you have to run and test the code on all target > architectures to keep it portable. Right. Remember the Ariane! https://around.com/ariane.html _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
