Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Sunday, 1 January 2023 at 01:58:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> True. Some 16 bit processors don't, notably the 8086. The 80286 
> had it since 1985 or thereabouts, back in the stone age.

The very popular WebAssembly virtual machine doesn't have it 
*today*.

I personally think this shows how little thought they put into 
the spec, but it is what it is.