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From: dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: sizeof in 36-bits machines
Summary: a bit too much ?
Message-ID: <272@ssp1.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 12 Oct 89 15:17:48 GMT
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
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Assuming a 36-bit integer (e.g. DEC-10 :-) and 8-bit bytes, what should
`sizeof(int)' return: 4, 4.5 or 5 ?
I know 4.5 is not valid, because pANSI states that the type of `sizeof' is
`size_t' (unsigned integral), but on the other hand 4 is too small and
5 too big.
Or is it simply impossible to make a compliant ANSI C compiler for such
machine/memory configuration ?
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