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Article #1519Re: The Forbiden
From: Darren New
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 13:53
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 13:53
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In article <1990Aug16.213113@ee.ubc.ca> mikeb@salmon.ee.ubc.ca writes: >On the other hand, the resource constraints may change dramatically >when the program is moved to a different platform, and the programmer >may not be aware of the change. > >Example: [about C deleted] The problem here is not that the constraints changed, but that you did not express the constraints properly. A type def. of something as (say) a "fastint range 0 .. 1567" would let the compiler choose what is best: a short on a 68K and a long on a SPARC. (Doesn't Ada have something like this?) C does not let you express such constraints directly, and forces you to express them in terms of the machine hardware; C is obviously not the "Universal Language". -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware ---
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: The Forbiden Message-ID: <27729@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 17 Aug 90 13:53:22 GMT References: <24294@megaron.cs.arizona.edu> <1990Aug16.213113@ee.ubc.ca> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 16 Nntp-Posting-Host: estelle.ee.udel.edu