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[–] mmddmm@lemm.ee 0 points 10 months 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?

[–] Hammerheart@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How does that work?

[–] timhh@programming.dev 2 points 9 months 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.