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Re:C meeting is over. C23 added: by nec4b on Saturday February 19, 2022 @07:16AM (#30396561)
The word "portable" means a subset of everything possible. Do you think every CPU architecture supports SIMD?
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Re:C meeting is over. C23 added: by foxfluff on Saturday February 19, 2022 @07:51AM (#30396773)
> The word "portable" means a subset of everything possible.

Exactly; for example, C has single precision and double double precision floating point, 64 bit types, and complex arithmetic because every CPU architecture has those built-in.

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Re:C meeting is over. C23 added: by nec4b on Saturday February 19, 2022 @08:38AM (#30397044)
No, but those things can be easily emulated on every hardware or simply not used. One more reason to use C instead of plain assembly.
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