Fixing C's Biggest Mistake

[Walter Bright]

On 12/31/2022 6:07 PM, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> The very popular WebAssembly virtual machine doesn't have it *today*.

I'm rather disturbed to hear that.

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

Indeed. The 8086 was designed to put the ROM at the *high* end of the address 
space. If they'd put it at the *bottom* end, it would have saved developers a 
million hours.

Weirdly, I never heard anyone suggest that.