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Tell me the truth ... (piefed.jeena.net)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How does that work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days 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.