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Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

Posted Jun 27, 2012 21:45 UTC (Wed) by mansr (guest, #85328)
In reply to: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths by nix
Parent article: Pettenò: Debunking x32 myths

POSIX does mandate 8-bit bytes. As for those DSPs, a lot of code running on them is actually written in C. Only the critical parts are typically done in assembly.

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