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		nly on May 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Byte Order Fiasco > I think there should really be a dialect of C(++) where the machine model is exactly the physical machine. Sounds great, until you have to rewrite all your software to go from x86-64 to ARM

pjmlp on May 8, 2021 [–]

Quite common when coding games back in the 8 and 16 bit days. :)

However for the case in hand, it would suffice to just write the key routines in Assembly, not everything.

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