On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 at 21:52:23 +0200
Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@???> wrote:

> On Monday 24 July 2017, Joachim Fahrner wrote:
>> Am 2017-07-24 20:34, schrieb Hendrik Boom:
>>> How much source code actually cares whether pointers are 32 or 64
>>> bits?
>>
>> Clean written code should not care about pointers or integers are 32
>> or 64 bit or byte order. Code written in a higher language should run
>> on any hardware, otherwise I call it "defect".
>
> In theory you may have right but in practice I guess most currently used
> code would not run correctly on 16bit machines.
>
> In practice you have to run and test the code on all target
> architectures to keep it portable.

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