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Re:A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016) by userbinator on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @10:31PM (#17914629)
rather than to try to force C to be that language

Ironic, considering that C was specifically designed for that from the beginning.

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Re:A bug story: data alignment in C on x86 (2016) by pjmlp on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @05:47AM (#17916442)
On the context of PDP-11 class hardware.

C isn't the first portable systems programming language, it just became ubiquitous thanks to UNIX.

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