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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by jcranmer on Monday July 02, 2018 @01:06PM (#17443419)
Exposing processor-specific details is the desired feature, not a bug. The people who want to program C for portable assembly do so because they want to take advantage of things they know about the architecture: the same source code isn't really portable across different architectures without #ifdef anyways.
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Re:Pointers Are More Abstract Than You Might Expect in C by p1esk on Monday July 02, 2018 @02:31PM (#17444244)
But if you don't care about portability, and want more hardware control, you can do inline assembly, or something like Intel's AVX intrinsics.
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