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Re:Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler by stinos on Friday September 25, 2015 @12:07PM (#10278922)
Expecting it isn't bad, blindly assuming POSIX is available everywhere is bad, as in calling your code cross-platform because it uses just C99 and POSIX for instance
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Re:Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler by uxcn on Friday September 25, 2015 @12:20PM (#10279020)
The majority of the time it's a safe assumption though, so I'm not sure developers can really be considered to blame.

The reality is, without it, developing software for a platform takes more effort which I think is one of the reasons languages have taken on the initiative of building portable interfaces. Even C11 has added threads.h.

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