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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by PersistentCough on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:03PM (#16968257)
> the C compiler

You mean C compiler X has the feature of Y. There are lots of compilers and that's not part of the language.

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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by umanwizard on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @12:17PM (#16968425)
Their comment makes sense if you interpret "the C compiler" to mean "mainstream C compilers that 99% people use in production" or even just "gcc and clang".

We're talking about concrete things in the real world here, not philosophizing about the language spec.

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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by PersistentCough on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:02PM (#16970285)
> not philosophizing about the language spec.

That's exactly what's going on.

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Re:C Is Not a Low-Level Language by Avshalom on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @07:05PM (#16972562)
And yet small device C and Gcc/clang are onky kissing cousins and we (well people that aren't me: ustedes) still rhetorically lump them together as a single language.
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