Re: Computer architects leaving Intel...

BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> writes:

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Would be nice, say, if there were semi-standard compiler macros for
various things:
  Endianess (macros exist, typically compiler specific);
    And, apparently GCC and Clang can't agree on which strategy to use.
  Whether or not the target/compiler allows misaligned memory access;
    If set, one may use misaligned access.
  Whether or not memory uses a single address space;
    If set, all pointer comparisons are allowed.
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[elaborations on the above]

I suppose it's natural for hardware-type folks to want features
like this to be part of standard C.  In a sense what is being
asked is to make C a high-level assembly language.  But that's
not what C is.  Nor should it be.