Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 1999 20:26:44 -0500 | From | Michael Meissner <> | Subject | Re: Q: void* vs. unsigned long (fwd) |
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On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 10:52:42PM +0100, Gerard Roudier wrote: > > The 1st bullet indicates that rank is independant of representation and if > > you look at the definitions within <limits.h> (5.2.4.2.1) you'll see that > > signed char is at least 8 bits long > > short int is at least 16 bits long > > int is at least 16 bits long > > long is at least 32 bits long > > long long is at least 64 bits long > > I donnot remember 'int' to ever have been 16 bits large on real > machines. Is this spec. that old? ;-)
Ah youth. Ummm, how about the machine C was designed for (and around) in the first place and the first place UNIX was written in C -- the PDP-11 (the original UNIX was on the PDP-7 written in assembler, but when Dennis and Brian and the gang moved up to 11's, they rewrote the OS into C)? Also, before you think 16-bit machines are completely dead, I did a GCC port for a new 16-bit machine last year that will be used in the embedded space for audio processing (and programmed in C).
-- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office) 4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA meissner@cygnus.com, 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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