I have been attempting to hammer this incorrect assumption out of
people's brains for years, and have submitted many patches to Linus [1]
over time, removing such crud from the kernel.
Such an assumption is blatantly non-portable, rendering your code
fragile.
Jeff, longtime alpha owner
[1] and other userland maintainers
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