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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@geek-central.gen.new_zealand>
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Subject: Re: Java vs C++
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In message <iiop28$8jj$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Joshua Cranmer wrote:

> On 02/07/2011 01:06 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message<4d4f45fc$0$23760$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> And the C spec leaves a lot of things to implementations.
>>
>> Not too much that you can’t write portable code in it.
> 
> Writing portable code in C pretty much requires you to do hefty
> compatibility layers.

Not really. Sticking to standard POSIX types like size_t, time_t etc gets 
you a lot of the way there.

> Many projects use typedefs to get proper-sized int variables (you can't
> use stdint.h, as MSVC doesn't implement it, as of MSVC 9.0).

How sad for MSVC...