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   :blobcatflower: (methyltheobromine@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 23:16:17 JST :blobcatflower:
   it's not a bug it's a design decision
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 23:19:30 JST 翠星石

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     @lucy "We don’t support 16-bit machines in GNU. "; https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/CPU-Portability.html
     
     16 bit is really a hackfest and 16 bit machines are really too slow to be useful as a general purpose computer and not supporting them to save a lot of development time and avoid nasty hacks was a design decision.
     
     GCC does support outputting 16 bit code for 16 bit microcontrollers as a single program - which is what those kind of computers are good for.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 23:20:08 JST 翠星石

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     @lucy `If people pressure you to make your program run on Windows, and you are not interested, you can respond with, “Switch to GNU/Linux — your freedom depends on it.”` - banger.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jun-2025 23:36:22 JST Phantasm

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     @lucy It's not broken, that's a feature.