Motivation seems clear: allowing compiler to be written portably using stdio text mode.
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ISO C's notion of "text file" is utterly idiotic and counter to any real-world practices in the past 3-4 decades.
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ok this is a corner of ISO I will happily never learn about in detail I hope
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If your assumption is POSIX||Windows, yes, assuming text files are either same as binary or just do silly \r\n stuff is fine.
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I'll handle violations of this assumption with the same priority that I handle non-two's-complement
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Or non-divisible by 8 CHAR_BIT
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