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eesmithyesterday at 3:27 PM1 replyview on HN

There are a lot of odd (by modern standards) machines out there.

You're also the most likely person to try to run your code on an 18 bit machine.


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fc417fc802yesterday at 4:52 PM

It might sound outrageous but I guard against this sort of thing. When I write utility code in C++ I generally include various static asserts about basic platform assumptions.

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