Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   If you are writing C which must be portable to obscure embedded systems,
> microwave ovens, 30-years-old obsolete mainframes and such, then you will
> have to take that and a whole lot of other things into account. OTOH, if
> you are just writing C for the PC, Mac and a few Unix computers out there,
> the rules can often be relaxed a bit.

.... though you shouldn't without need, because future portability is a
portability issue that typically applies to all software.

You never know what future hardware architectures bring.

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