Re: Loops (was Re: do { quit; } else { })

Am 10.06.2025 um 15:01 schrieb Tim Rentsch:

Consider the following program:
     #include <stdio.h>
    #include <string.h>
     typedef unsigned long long ULL;
    ULL hello = ((((0ULL +'o' <<8) +'l' <<8) +'l' <<8) +'e' <<8) + 'h';
     int
    main(){
       printf( "length is %zu\n", strlen( (char*)&hello ) );
       return  0;
    }
 On a little endian machine (with CHAR_BIT == 8) this program works,
and TTBOMK conforms to both the letter and the spirit of the C
standard, without any undefined behavior (on that platform).  Yet
there are no arrays in sight, and certainly no array objects.

There are not much remaining big-endian architectures today.
Little-endian is simply the cleverer idea.