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Re:`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete by deredede on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @05:33AM (#41117622)
If you define WIDTH and ITER prior to execution you are just giving arguments to your program.

Maybe using the term "environment" was not the best choice; what I mean is that WIDTH and ITER are program variables that impact program behavior and output (appear in regexes etc.) whereas (most) C programs don't actually reference or depend on the pointer width (other than crashing if it's too small); it is an internal detail of the C compiler and underlying hardware that only happens to be visible to the programmer due to leaky abstractions. I don't think those are comparable.

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Re:`find` + `mkdir` is Turing complete by horsawlarway on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @09:37AM (#41119045)
I mean... isn't this just `sizeof` in c?

Honestly, I'm struggling to think of any real world code base I've worked with in C that didn't care about pointer size.

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