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Article #773Re: sizeof in 36-bits machines
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 05:33
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1989 05:33
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In article <14904@haddock.ima.isc.com> karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes: >>>Alternatively, you could just make sizeof(int)=sizeof(char)=1 >It remains to be seen whether this is legal, and if so, what happens when the >input stream contains a bit pattern that compares equal to the value of EOF. There wouldn't be a problem for the characters corresponding to the C source character set. There certainly might be for other characters. I think our tentative resolution of this was that it IS a permitted implementation, although there was some question as to whether X3J11 had actually intended for it to be. Thus it should be raised as a formal request for interpretation, in order to get a definitive ruling.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: sizeof in 36-bits machines Message-ID: <11321@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 17 Oct 89 05:33:12 GMT References: <272@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl> <11284@smoke.BRL.MIL> <398@cpsolv.UUCP> <11300@smoke.BRL.MIL> <14904@haddock.ima.isc.com> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 11