From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: matthias.andree@gmx.de,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: C99 types VS Linus types
Date: 07 Jul 2003 13:24:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1057580683.2748.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1057579305.747.79.camel@cube>
On Llu, 2003-07-07 at 13:01, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> The days of non-power-of-two word sizes are
> gone for normal computing. Sign-magnitude and
> ones-compliment are dead too. Float is IEEE
> format, possibly skipping a few costly features.
> Nobody is going to go back to the old way.
>
> It's too bad the C99 committee didn't have the
> guts to make this official.
The C99 people have to handle non-normal computing too. C
has lots of little quirks (like pointers off the end of
array rules) from this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-07 12:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-07 12:01 Albert Cahalan
2003-07-07 12:22 ` Matthias Andree
2003-07-07 12:24 ` Alan Cox [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-06 22:18 Albert Cahalan
2003-07-07 1:59 ` Matthias Andree
2003-07-06 5:03 Bernardo Innocenti
2003-07-06 12:23 ` Philippe Elie
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