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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by baby on Thursday April 12, 2018 @08:08AM (#16819983)
All the hacks that make assumption on some type sizes like pointers that will change on 64bit architectures will break your program.

Hacks are seen as "good" C programming, and encouraged, so this kind of thing happens.

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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by rsynnott on Thursday April 12, 2018 @09:25AM (#16820633)
Not even a case of hacks; before modern (C99) C, standard C didn't have fixed-width integer types at all, so behaviour can very easily change with architecture.
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Re:Apple starting to alert users that it will end 32-bit app... by jackhack on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:06AM (#16821675)
>>Hacks are seen as "good" C programming, and encouraged, so this kind of thing happens.

Perhaps among new developers. Us old-timers who have to maintain this stuff have learned to avoid "clever" code rather quickly and admonish those who write it. Elegant, to me, includes "easy to read and understand."

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