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Article #20803Re: looking for >32-bit address space [and how will C handle it]
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1989 16:26
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1989 16:26
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In article <684@ultb.UUCP>, jed4885@ultb.UUCP (J.E. Dyer) writes: > I was thinking about this today, and wondered why not change C > slightly so that the size of an enumerated object (ints, chars, > longs, etc) was explicitly defined. Perhaps int1, int2, int4, > int8 etc would be a good way of doing it... I've suggested this before. I think syntax like: int:32 x, y; int:36 z; /* Unisys 1100 compatibility :-> */ int a:8, b:9, c:6; Ideally sizeof(char) should be 8 :->. I know, takenm to the extreme this'd break too much code. But expanding bit-feild syntax would help solvce some problems here... -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Personal: ...!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: looking for >32-bit address space [and how will C handle it] Message-ID: <3879@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Apr 89 16:26:21 GMT References: <1032@myrias.UUCP> <12289@reed.UUCP> <16568@winchester.mips.COM> <684@ultb.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support Lines: 20