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by BearOso 25 days ago
We also have a very limited number of compilers and a small number of prevalent architectures today. As long as you know the behavior of the target compiler and architecture, the behavior is defined, it's just not specified.
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This is true.

But why I’m saying has always been true. What has changed is that the effective portability of C and C++ code has increased due to the reduction in number of compilers and arches