Comment by sylware
2 years ago
Indeed, vendor extensions are no fragmentation of the ratified and frozen extensions.
The real signficant and annoying fragmentation is 32/64 bits (accutely painful on x86).
2 years ago
Indeed, vendor extensions are no fragmentation of the ratified and frozen extensions.
The real signficant and annoying fragmentation is 32/64 bits (accutely painful on x86).
hm, from my point of view, "here are 4+ different ways to do it, depending on which CPU you are running on" sure sounds like fragmentation.
Perhaps embedded systems engineers see things differently if they know exactly what CPU they are going to target.
32/64 bits? It's been years since we dropped support for 32-bit x86 :)
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