[TUHS] Minimum Array Sizes in 16 bit C (was Maximum)

[Rik Farrow]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 1:29 PM Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Gradually the writers of optimizing compilers have leaned so hard on the
> implementation-defined and undefined behaviors that, while far from
> useless, C and C++ have become non-portable and dangerously insecure, as
> well as often very surprising to the point that the US government arguing
> against using them.
>
>>
>> Thank goodness. I loved C when I encountered it, because the alternative
was Z80 assembler. I loved having structs, because I was lousy at using
offsets (off by one so often you'd think I would just have adjusted for
being wrong).

I'll take the guardrails, please.

C: the assault rifle of programming languages...

Rik
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/attachments/20240929/1f85a1db/attachment-0001.htm>