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Article #4106Re: Function-prototype scope: Why?
From: Thomas Koenig
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:07
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:07
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In comp.std.c, meissner@cygnus.com (Michael Meissner) wrote: >| > Take it from me, implementing strict C on a word based machine is simple -- >| Even a PDP-10 under TOPS-10/20 (I meant PDP-10 when I wrote PDP-11) where >| the 7-bit byte, 5 to a word, is customarie? >A PDP-10 with 7-bit bytes, 5 to a word, with a leftover bit could never become >standard conforming (since the standard requires that all objects be multiple >of bytes). Actually, the standard requires at least 8 bits to a char (I can look up the exact place if there's interest). What I could not figure out was why this was done. -- Thomas König, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: Function-prototype scope: Why? Date: 25 Sep 1995 20:07:02 +0100 Organization: Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Message-ID: <446ukm$kb9@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <43cgmb$cec@news0.rain.rg.net> <MEISSNER.95Sep22121125@tiktok.cygnus.com> <43v9nd$4hi@caip.rutgers.edu> <MEISSNER.95Sep25123942@tiktok.cygnus.com> Reply-To: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de NNTP-Posting-Host: fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: ig25