#portability on Hacker News

2 stories tagged portability, newest first.

Screenshot of pikuma.com: C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake

C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com)

75 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 117 comments

Pikuma blog post by Gustavo Pezzi arguing C's flexible integer sizes enabled portability across 12, 18, 36, and 60-bit machines rather than being a design mistake.

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Screenshot of nanochess.org: Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler

Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler (nanochess.org)

58 points by nanochess 1 month ago | 8 comments

Oscar Toledo G. describes recovering his late-1990s transputer C compiler from a floppy disk and making its code portable to modern compilers.

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#portability on Hacker News

C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake(pikuma.com)

Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler(nanochess.org)

C's Flexible Integer Sizes Were Not a Design Mistake (pikuma.com)

Making portable my unportable transputer C compiler (nanochess.org)