Re: Every sufficiently competent C programmer knows

On 16/03/2025 10:31, Mikko wrote:

False. You didn't say that HHH is a C function. In particular, the code
shown above does not say so.

It scarcely qualifies as C.
For example, it begins by a goto this code:
__asm__("lea eax, DATA1");
   __asm__("mov Aborted, eax");
   __asm__("lea eax, DATA2");
   __asm__("mov execution_trace, eax");
   __asm__("mov eax, END_OF_CODE");
   __asm__("mov End_Of_Code, eax");
which any C compiler is free to reject.
C99 introduced the asm keyword, but that's spelled asm, not __asm__, and of course it's not a magic wand, so it can't make an inherently unportable program work on every platform supported by C compilers. C/370, for example, would have a fit.
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