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Tell me the truth ... (europe.pub)
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[–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Apart from dynamically typed languages which need to store the type with the value

You know that depending on what your code does, the same C that people are talking upthread doesn't even need to allocate memory to store a variable, right?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    How does that work?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I think he's talking about if a variable only exists in registers. In which case it is the size of a register. But that's true of everything that gets put in registers. You wouldn't say uint16_t is word-sized because at some point it gets put into a word-sized register. That's dumb.

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