@Listens to Baroque while coding murder.exe :newt: @Sally (evil) @Alexandre Oliva The use of compiler intrinsics is neither a surprise nor a problem, especially extremely common ones like that.

That is a largely unavoidable abstraction leak from having to actually talk to the hardware at some point. The only exception would be something like a Java/Lisp Machine, maybe.

The particular use here could even be largely covered with IFDEFs for portability without it being completely unbearable as a maintenance load (more than the kernel already is, anyway).