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by rhdxmr 2001 days ago
Wow I am very surprised that this could happen. An executable that can run on every platform? I am curious about it
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When you think about it, 99% of the code of a compiled C program is processor specific object code which in theory should not care about the operating system or environment at all. It is the 1% like API/ABI and header magic that makes the same object code incompatible under different OSes.