Your C is not standard C

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sebsite your c is not standard c 2026-10-12 The committee has created an unreal language that no one can or will actually use. - Dennis Ritchie (out of context) this is an incomplete list of some incompatibilities between c as it's written in the standard and c as it exists in the real world for people who use gcc/clang + glibc/musl. asm by default, gcc and clang recognize the asm keyword as an extension. this is not strictly conformant, because in standard c, asm is a valid non-reserved identif

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