> Everything should be run-time-switchable

Ah, the power of modal verbs.

The evaluation of constant expressions is pretty solidly tied between the
target platform and the host platform.

For integers that is probably not a huge problem unless your target
platform has 128-bit long longs.  Or uses 1-complement representation,
oh horror.

For floating point, if you care, there are practical differences that it
is going to be really hard to get rid of.  Your x86 chip's long double
isn't going to emulate the sparc's long double very well.  It's 80-bit
vs. 128-bit.  To even get to compile-time switchability you are looking
at floating-point emulation.

Morten
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