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by tialaramex 1359 days ago
I'm not sure there are C zealots. There are definitely C++ zealots, but I don't see that level of burning passion for C.

As to the "inconsistency" between portable assembler and abstract machine, surely the problem is that the people who claim its a "portable assembler" aren't talking about a compiler they wrote, or a standard they authored but their (wrong) expectations for somebody else's compiler and standard. I don't see this language from WG14 (the committee) or the compiler vendors.