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		adgjlsfhk1 on March 17, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore the big issues with C are that it doesn't specify the size of it's integer types.

valleyer on March 17, 2022 [–]

The various C ABIs definitely do, though. And you generally know which C ABI you need to interact with (the __int128_t example from the article just seems like a bug -- luckily use of that type is rare).

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