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Kunal Gangakhedkar wrote:
> 
> > I don't think there's a general, compiler-independent way of
> > getting that information.  Each compiler should have this
> > documented somewhere.
> 
> But then, the problem remains to select a proper compiler....
> If I'm building an app. which needs to be cross-platform
> portable, then this kind of decision is quite important.

Simply stick to ISO Standard C for your coding, and the results
will be portable.  If something rears its head you can write, in a
separate module, something to handle that. Then porting requires
customizing that single module.

If you want binary portability, that requires an interpreted
system to be universal.

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