> What GCC is doing subverts the purpose of writing in C, which is to get close to the machine and instruct its processor to do certain things.
That's not the purpose of writing in C. It's a goal you might be able to achieve with C, but I'm not sure why that's your goal, and it's certainly not the goal of everyone who writes C. I think more people who write C do so with the coal of producing programs that run fast or with a minimal memory fingerprint.
That's not the purpose of writing in C. It's a goal you might be able to achieve with C, but I'm not sure why that's your goal, and it's certainly not the goal of everyone who writes C. I think more people who write C do so with the coal of producing programs that run fast or with a minimal memory fingerprint.