one of my favourite falsehoods people believe about the C programming language: "float and int are 32 bits"
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in reality the specification gives basically no guarantees about this
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thanks to C99, there is stdint.h which defines types that have guaranteed sizes
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Gah my university made us use ANSI C. And supplied students an ancient compiler that gave the most unhelpful error messages imaginable. I hope things have improved there since then… 🙄
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