Re:Japanese textile factory still uses tape cassette and pun...
by zokier on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:26AM
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20 years ago was 2003, four years after C99. First x86-64 CPUs were released 20 years ago. Compiling 20 year old C codebase should not be an issue at all if it was half-decent to begin with.
Compiling pre-ANSI-C and pre-POSIX codebases might have challenges, but standardization has really gotten us lot of stability here.
I'd expect conservatively written C99/POSIX code to be usable certainly for another 20 years, there is just so much inertia there
Compiling pre-ANSI-C and pre-POSIX codebases might have challenges, but standardization has really gotten us lot of stability here.
I'd expect conservatively written C99/POSIX code to be usable certainly for another 20 years, there is just so much inertia there
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect