Re: Have we become too Intel x64 centered?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-01-27 17:17:52

Edward Diener wrote:
> On 1/27/2021 3:41 AM, Andrey Semashev via Boost wrote:
> > Assumptions about alignment, endianness and overflow semantics and FP 
> > specifics are also not limited to lower level libraries and tend to crop 
> > up at any level.
>
> Granted ! But I think that the vast majority of Boost libraries do not 
> deal in these issues.

It's surprisingly easy for platform-specific assumptions to sneak into 
ostensibly portable code. If it's not tested, it's not guaranteed to work.