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Article #20825Re: looking for >32-bit address space [and how will C handle it]
From: Jim Shankland
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1989 15:48
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1989 15:48
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In article <11300@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM> andrew@frip.wv.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) writes: >[Having types int1, int2, int4, ... in C] would impose an eight-bit >byte, binary, twos-complement model on the computer's arithmetic .... >Is the world ready for the constraints of this model? Probably yes, as a matter of practice. But if int1 were defined as an integer type having a range of *at least* -128 .. 127, int2 the same with a range of *at least* -32768 .. 32767, and so on, the constraints aren't quite as ... constraining. You can go ahead and use that 36-bit word as an int4. Jim Shankland jas@ernie.berkeley.edu "Blame it on the lies that killed us, blame it on the truth that ran us down"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ernie.Berkeley.EDU!jas From: jas@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: looking for >32-bit address space [and how will C handle it] Message-ID: <28828@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 18 Apr 89 15:48:06 GMT References: <1032@myrias.UUCP> <12289@reed.UUCP> <16568@winchester.mips.COM> <1326@softway.oz> <684@ultb.UUCP> <11300@tekecs.GWD.TEK.COM> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: jas@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Shankland) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15