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Well, he sorta says it at the end:

>Other C libraries typically use more careful techniques, such as wrapping the declarations in architecture-specific #ifdefs

They don't have to define it multiple times for different architectures. This is theoretically platform agnostic and saves a few lines. Not really that significant, but then again it's not like he's recommending people do it.




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