Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ANSI C clarifications, with citations | Date | Mon, 3 Jul 2000 16:54:18 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > Other machines included PR1ME computers which used a 32-bit word > > pointer, and a 48-bit byte pointer. > > How did C on those machines implement a void *?
I cant speak for the old pre mips PR1ME but for the HLH Orion that was word addressed a void * was a char * and a char * was an address shifted left 2 with the byte number in the low 2 bits.
You really did have to get your casting right on those.
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