The ansi C standard looks to the future as well, folks

[Alan J Rosenthal]

tneff at bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>I would like to hear one real world example of an architecture where it
>can be illegal to ...

and garys at bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes:
>Are you being hypothetical, or is there a machine that really does this?

and many others write with similar sentiments.

The ansi C standard will apply to many machines of the future, such as
super-risc machines with 1e6 registers where each register has a different
type.  These discussions mostly refer to actual existing machines, but they're
not invalidated just because no machine of a certain description currently
exists, so long as it is a reasonable kind of machine that may some day exist.

ajr

p.s.  :-) on the super-risc 1e6 register thing.  But hey, such a machine could
run the X server entirely out of register memory.